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Yeasts hide in many lichen partnerships

Fungus discovery challenges textbook idea of organisms’ symbiosis

wolf lichen

WHAT’S IN YOUR LICHEN?  A wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina) is one of the species making scientists rethink more than a century of assumptions about what’s in a lichen.

Tim Wheeler 

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

The discovery of unknown yeasts hiding in lichens from six continents could shake up a basic idea of what makes up a lichen partnership.