JJH Katalog - Lichenological literature

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Zhang T., Wang N. & Yu L. (2020): Soil fungal community composition differs significantly among the Antarctic, Arctic, and Tibetan Plateau - Extremophiles , 24: 821–829

Fungi are widely distributed in all terrestrial ecosystems, and they are essential to the recycling of nutrients in all terrestrial habitats on earth. We wanted to determine the relationship between soil fungal communities and geochemical factors (geographical location and soil physicochemical properties) in three widely separated geographical regions (the Antarctic, Arctic, and Tibet Plateau). Using high-throughput Illumina amplicon sequencing, we characterized the fungal communities in 53 soil … Read more...

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Zhang T., Wang N.-F., Liu H.-Y., Zhang Y.-Q. & Yu L.-Y. (2016): Soil pH is a key determinant of soil fungal community composition in the Ny-Ålesund region, Svalbard (High Arctic) - Frontiers in Microbiology, 7: 227 [10 p.]

This study assessed the fungal community composition and its relationships with properties of surface soils in the Ny-Ålesund Region (Svalbard, High Arctic). A total of thirteen soil samples were collected and soil fungal community was analyzed by 454 pyrosequencing with fungi-specific primers targeting the rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. The following eight soil properties were analyzed: pH, organic carbon (C), organic nitrogen (N), ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N), silicate silicon (SiO42--Si), … Read more...

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Zhang T., Wei X.-L., Wei J.Z., Liu H.-Y. & Yu L.-Y. (2016): Diversity and distribution of cultured endolichenic fungi in the Ny‐Ålesund Region, Svalbard (High Arctic) - Extremophiles, 20: 461–470

Endolichenic fungi within 17 lichen species in the area near Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard, High Arctic) were studied by a culture-based method. The 247 fungal isolates were obtained from 2712 lichen thallus segments. The colonization rate of endolichenic fungi ranged from 1.6 to 26.5 %, respectively. These isolates were identified to 40 fungal taxa, including 35 Ascomycota (10 orders), 4 Basidiomycota (3 orders), and 1 unidentified fungus. Thelebolales was the most abundant order, while Sordariales were … Read more...

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Zhang T., Wei X.-L., Zhang Y.-Q., Liu H.-Y. & Yu L.-Y. (2015): Diversity and distribution of lichenassociated fungi in the Ny-Ålesund Region (Svalbard, High Arctic) as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing - Scientific Reports, 5: 14850 [10 p.]

This study assessed the diversity and distribution of fungal communities associated with seven lichen species in the Ny-Ålesund Region (Svalbard, High Arctic) using Roche 454 pyrosequencing with fungal-specific primers targeting the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the ribosomal rRNA gene. Lichen-associated fungal communities showed high diversity, with a total of 42,259 reads belonging to 370 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) being found. Of these OTUs, 294 belonged to Ascomycota, … Read more...

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Zhang T., Zhang X., Yang Q. & Wei X. (2022): Hidden species diversity was explored in two genera of catapyrenioid lichens (Verrucariaceae, Ascomycota) from the deserts of China - Journal of Fungi, 8(7): 729 [17 p.]

Verrucariaceae is the third-largest lichen family with high species diversity. However, this diversity has not been well-explored in China. We carried out a wide-scale field investigation in the arid and semi-arid regions of Northwest China from 2017 to 2021. A large number of lichen groups, especially those commonly distributed in deserts, were collected. Based on molecular phylogeny using ITS and nuLSU sequences by Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses, combining morphological characters, … Read more...

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Zhang T., Zhu X., Vizzini A., Li B., Cao Z., Guo W., Qi S., Wei X. & Zhao R. (2022): New insights into lichenization in Agaricomycetes based on an unusual new basidiolichen species of Omphalina s. str. - Journal of Fungi, 8(10): 1033 [11 p.]

The genus Omphalina is an ideal genus for studying the evolutionary mechanism of lichenization. Based on molecular phylogeny using ITS and nuLSU sequences by means of Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses and morphological examination, combining the existence of green algae in basidiomata stipe and a Botrydina-type vegetative thallus, we described a bryophilous new basidiolichen species, Omphalina licheniformis, from a residential area of Jiangxi Province, China. This finding of unusual new basidiolichen … Read more...

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Zhang W., Ran Q., Li H. & Lou H. (2024): Endolichenic fungi: a promising medicinal microbial resource to discover bioactive natural molecules—an update - Journal of Fungi, 10(2): 99 [49 p.]

Lichens are some of the most unique fungi and are naturally encountered as symbiotic biological organisms that usually consist of fungal partners (mycobionts) and photosynthetic organisms (green algae and cyanobacteria). Due to their distinctive growth environments, including hot deserts, rocky coasts, Arctic tundra, toxic slag piles, etc., they produce a variety of biologically meaningful and structurally novel secondary metabolites to resist external environmental stresses. The endofungi that live … Read more...

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Zhang Y. & Wei J.-C. (2017): Generic classification based on the symplesiomorphy of genotype and phenotype of the family Umbilicariaceae (Ascomycota) - Mycosystema, 36(8): 1089–1103

This paper includes three aspects. First, a new concept of classification has been proposed, i.e. systematic biology of lichenized fungi with three systems of storage and retrieval is a bridge between biodiversity in the nature and exploration of lichen resources. Second, the symplesiomorphic analyses based on genotype together with phenotype data have solved the generic classification in the Umbilicariaceae, which has not been solved by the analyses of molecular systematics. Third, marginal species … Read more...

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Zhang Y.-Y., Wang X.-Y., Li L.-J., Printzen C., Timdal E., Niu D.-L., Yin A.-C., Wang S.-Q. & Wang L.-S. (2020): Squamarina (lichenised fungi) species described from China belong to at least three unrelated genera - MycoKeys, 66: 135–157

New collections of six Squamarina species from type localities in China were studied. The comparison of morphological characteristics and secondary metabolites with those of the type specimens and phylogenetic analyses suggest that S. callichroa and S. pachyphylla belong to Rhizoplaca, S. semisterilis belongs to Lobothallia and S. chondroderma should be retained in Lecanora temporarily. Only two species, S. kansuensis and S. oleosa, remain in Squamarina. The new combinations Lobothallia semisterilis (H. … Read more...

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Zhang Y., Clancy J., Jensen J., McMullin R.T., Wang L. & Leavitt S.D. (2022): Providing scale to a known taxonomic unknown—At least a 70-fold increase in species diversity in a cosmopolitan nominal taxon of lichen-forming fungi - Journal of Fungi, 8: 490 [18 p.]

Robust species delimitations provide a foundation for investigating speciation, phylogeography, and conservation. Here we attempted to elucidate species boundaries in the cosmopolitan lichen-forming fungal taxon Lecanora polytropa. This nominal taxon is morphologically variable, with distinct populations occurring on all seven continents. To delimit candidate species, we compiled ITS sequence data from populations worldwide. For a subset of the samples, we also generated alignments for 1209 … Read more...