The patches of lichen you’ve probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they’re actually some of the world’s strangest living things. While they're sometimes ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...

Symbiosis between fungi and microalgae gives rise to lichen. Some lichen, however, such as Lobaria scrobiculata, have a unique feature: the fungus establishes a symbiosis with a cyanobacteria, thus ...

(CN) — Reindeer lichens, beloved by wild reindeer looking for an easily grazeable meal, generally find it easiest to reproduce asexually by simply cloning themselves instead of the more ...

WALLROTH 1 introduced the term ‘gonidia’ to describe the green cells found in lichens. They were considered to be ‘brood cells’ or organs of reproduction of the lichen-fungus. This interpretation of ...

The first day of spring has come and gone, but, while hiking with friends in the mountains in Maine this past weekend we encountered enough snow and ice to realize spring doesn’t always arrive on its ...

The first day of spring has come and gone, but, while hiking with friends in the mountains in Maine this past weekend we encountered enough snow and ice to realize spring doesn’t always arrive on its ...

Lichens cover about 6% of the world’s land surface. You’ve probably noticed them growing in the shade on rocks. The thallus of a lichen is considered the lichen’s body, not including the parts ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 28, No. 9 (September 2022), pp. 1810-1819 (10 pages) Aim: Understanding ecological distributions of global biodiversity is stymied by incomplete knowledge of drivers ...

Symbiosis between fungi and microalgae gives rise to lichen. Some lichen, however, such as Lobaria scrobiculata, have a unique feature: the fungus establishes a symbiosis with a cyanobacteria, thus ...