Yeasts hide in many lichen partnerships
Fungus discovery challenges textbook idea of organisms’ symbiosis
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
The discovery of unknown yeasts hiding in lichens from six continents could shake up a basic idea of what makes up a lichen partnership.