W. B. Sanders 2010: Together and separate: reconstructing life histories of lichen symbionts. - In: T. H. Nash, III, L. Geiser, B. McCune, D. Triebel, A. M. F. Tomescu and W. B. Sanders: Biology of Lichens ― Symbiosis, Ecology, Environmental Monitoring, Systematics and Cyber Applications. . Bibliotheca Lichenologica No. 105. J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart. 256 pages pp. 1-16. [RLL List # 220 / Rec.# 32182] Keywords: LIFE CYCLE/ PHOTOBIONTS/ MYCOBIONTS/ LIFE HISTORY/ SYMBIOSIS/ GROWTH
Abstract: [Author reviews mycobiont biology especially " ... nutritional strategies employed before a symbiotic thallus can be organized, and the frequency, implications and outcomes of multiple fungal genotypes contributing to the formation of a single lichen thallus." For the photobiont, "It is stressed that very little is known with certainty concerning any of the major events in their presumed sexual cycles."]