"Lichens" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Any of a group of plants formed by a symbiotic combination of a fungus with an algae or CYANOBACTERIA, and sometimes both. The fungal component makes up the bulk of the lichen and forms the basis for its name.
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D008011
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.340 B05.350
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lichens" by people in Profiles.
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The macroevolutionary dynamics of symbiotic and phenotypic diversification in lichens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 09 01; 117(35):21495-21503.
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No support for the emergence of lichens prior to the evolution of vascular plants. Geobiology. 2020 01; 18(1):3-13.
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Fungal specificity and selectivity for algae play a major role in determining lichen partnerships across diverse ecogeographic regions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota). Mol Ecol. 2015 07; 24(14):3779-97.
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Accelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota). BMC Evol Biol. 2008 Sep 22; 8:257.
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Whatever happened to the pyrenomycetes and loculoascomycetes? Mycol Res. 2007 Sep; 111(Pt 9):1064-74.
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Testing "species pair" hypotheses: evolutionary processes in the lichen-forming species complex Porpidia flavocoerulescens and Porpidia melinodes. Mol Biol Evol. 2006 Mar; 23(3):574-86.
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Ascoma morphology is homoplaseous and phylogenetically misleading in some pyrenocarpous lichens. Mycologia. 2005 Mar-Apr; 97(2):362-74.
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Resolving evolutionary relationships in the lichen-forming genus Porpidia and related allies (Porpidiaceae, Ascomycota). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2004 Jul; 32(1):66-82.