0587679 - MBÚ 2025 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Jung, P. - Briegel-Williams, L. - Buedel, B. - Schultz, M. - Nuernberg, Dennis J. - Grube, M. - D'Agostino, Paul M. - Kastovský, J. - Mareš, Jan - Lorenz, M. - Gil Gonzalez, M. L. - Dal Forno, M. - Westberg, M. - Chrismas, N. - Pietrasiak, N. - Whelan, P. - Dvořák, P. - Košuthová, A. - Gkelis, S. - Bauersachs, T. - Schiefelbein, U. - Giao, V. T. P. - Lakatos, M.
The underestimated fraction: diversity, challenges and novel insights into unicellular cyanobionts of lichens.
ISME Communications. Roč. 4, č. 1 (2024), č. článku ycae069. E-ISSN 2730-6151
Institutional support: RVO:61388971
Keywords : chroococcidiopsis * cyanobacteria * classification * phycobiont * nostoc * Chroococcidiopsis * Chroococcidiopsidales * Lichinales * cyanolichens * lichenology * phycology * photobiont * cyanobiont
OECD category: Microbiology
Impact factor: 5.2, year: 2023
Method of publishing: Open access
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https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/article/4/1/ycae069/7665615?login=trueDOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae069

Lichens are remarkable and classic examples of symbiotic organisms that have fascinated scientists for centuries. Yet, it has only been for a couple of decades that significant advances have focused on the diversity of their green algal and/or cyanobacterial photobionts. Cyanolichens, which contain cyanobacteria as their photosynthetic partner, include up to 10% of all known lichens and, as such, studies on their cyanobionts are much rarer compared to their green algal counterparts. For the unicellular cyanobionts, i.e. cyanobacteria that do not form filaments, these studies are even scarcer. Nonetheless, these currently include at least 10 different genera in the cosmopolitan lichen order Lichinales. An international consortium (International Network of CyanoBionts, INCb) will tackle this lack of knowledge. In this article, we discuss the status of current unicellular cyanobiont research, compare the taxonomic resolution of photobionts from cyanolichens with those of green algal lichens (chlorolichens), and give a roadmap of research on how to recondition the underestimated fraction of symbiotic unicellular cyanobacteria in lichens.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0354776