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FUNGAL BIOLOGY
Volume 117, Issue 7-8, Pages 512-518Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2013.05.003
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Bacterial film; Charcoalification; Lichen symbiosis; Lochkovian strata; Palaeomicrobiology
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- Leverhulme Trust Grant
- Swiss National Science Foundation Grant [3100A0-116597]
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The charcoalified fragment of the dorsiventrally organized, internally stratified presumed green algal lichen Chlorolichenomycites salopensis from the Lower Devonian Lochkovian strata in the Welsh Borderland carries bacterial colonies on the upper surface, i.e. the cortex, and actinobacterial filaments in the medulla underneath the photobiont layer. Moreover relatively thin hyphae of presumed endolichenic fungi were found. As in extant lichens, which are best regarded as consortia with an unknown number of participants, this internally stratified, fossil thallus fragment of a presumed green algal lichen harbours a diverse microbial community. (c) 2013 The British Mycological Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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