Sex and the single lichen

G. J. Murtagh, P. S. Dyer and P. D. Crittenden ()
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G. J. Murtagh: School of Biological Sciences, University of Nottingham
P. S. Dyer: School of Biological Sciences, University of Nottingham
P. D. Crittenden: School of Biological Sciences, University of Nottingham

Nature, 2000, vol. 404, issue 6778, 564-564

Abstract: Abstract Most lichenized fungi produce abundant sexual structures, and in many species sexual spores seem to provide the only means of dispersal. For example, 90% of lichens found in Great Britain and Ireland2 produce ascomata (fruit bodies) containing sexually derived ascospores, whereas only 29% form symbiotic vegetative propagules. Sex in lichenized fungi has been assumed to equate with outcrossing3, but failure to induce sexuality in vitro has prevented experimental investigation of their breeding systems.

Date: 2000
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