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The 7 th International Association for Lichenology <strong>Symposium</strong> 2012<br />

(2A-2-P10) Submission ID: <strong>IAL</strong>0182-00001<br />

PHOTOBIONT ACQUISITION, SPECIFICITY AND COEVOLUTION<br />

IN THE LICHEN GENUS BRYORIA<br />

Lindgren H. 1 , Myllys L. 1 , Högnabba F. 1 , Velmala S. 1 , Goward T. 2 , Halonen P. 3 , Holien H. 4 , Laitinen S. 1<br />

1 Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland<br />

2 Herbarium,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada<br />

3 Botanical Museum, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland<br />

4 Faculty of Agriculture and Information Technology, Nord-Trndelag University College, Trondheim, Norway<br />

Lichen photobionts are assumed to coevolve with lichen mycobionts because of their close relationship.<br />

Photobionts have an essential role in lichen metabolism as providers of carbohydrates to the mycobiont.<br />

In the lichen genus Bryoria, the most common known photobionts belong to the coccoid green algal genus<br />

Trebouxia. In this study the acquisition, specificity and possible coevolution between Bryoria spp. and their photobionts<br />

were examined by constructing mycobiont and algal phylogenies with parsimony methods using three<br />

mycobiont loci (nuITS rDNA, GAPDH and mtSSU) and one algal locus (nuITS rDNA). According to the preliminary<br />

results the mycobionts of Bryoria smithii, B. bicolor, B. tenuis and B. nadvornikiana seem to be selective<br />

towards their photobionts implying a possible coevolutionary event in the past. All the other species included<br />

in the analyses seemed to be less selective in their photobiont acquisition. However, some geographical correlation<br />

was observed in section Implexae (i.e. in the group including B. capillaris, B. fuscescens, B. implexa s.<br />

lato, B. lanestris and B. subcana) non-sorediate American species being more restricted in their choice of algal<br />

partners.<br />

(2A-2-P11) Submission ID: <strong>IAL</strong>0199-00001<br />

TANGLES IN HORSEHAIR - PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES ON PENDENT BRYORIA<br />

Velmala S. 1 , Myllys L. 1 , Goward T. 2 , Holien H. 3 , Halonen P. 4<br />

1 Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland<br />

2 Herbarium, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada<br />

3 Department of Resource Sciences, Nord-Trøndelag University College, Steinkjer, Norway<br />

4 Botanical Museum, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland<br />

Bryoria Brodo & D. Hawksw. (horsehair lichens) is a widespread lichen genus occurring mainly on<br />

conifers in boreal forests. The species are recognized by usually dichotomously branched thallus with slender,<br />

hairlike, gray to blackish branches, sometimes bearing soralia and pseudocyphellae. Bryoria is regarded as<br />

one of the taxonomically most difficult macrolichen genera due to infraspecific morphological variation, rarity<br />

of sexual fruiting structures limiting the amount of diagnostic characters, and the occurrence of putative,<br />

morphologically intermediate specimens. Especially pendent species are highly variable in morphology, giving<br />

secondary chemistry an essential role in species recognition. According to our recent phylogenetic studies on<br />

Bryoria, the current taxonomic status of many pendent taxa, notably in the section Implexae (sensu Myllys et al.),<br />

is questionable. The aim of our study is to examine with more extensive data sampling 1) the monophyly of the<br />

five taxa placed in section Implexae, i.e., Bryoria capillaris (Ach.) Brodo & D. Hawksw., B. fuscescens (Gyeln.)<br />

Brodo & D. Hawksw., B. implexa (Hoffm.) Brodo & D. Hawksw. (with five chemotypes sensu Holien), B. lanestris<br />

(Ach.) Brodo & D. Hawksw. and B. subcana (Nyl. ex Stizenb.) Brodo & D. Hawksw., and 2) if specimens from<br />

different geographical areas are genetically isolated. We reconstruct a phylogeny for the group using four DNA<br />

regions in addition to morphological and chemical characters. Our results indicate that the taxonomic status of<br />

some species should be re-evaluated. For instance North American and European B. capillaris represent taxonomically<br />

distinct entities. Furthermore, some of the taxa traditionally regarded as separate species, such as B.<br />

chalybeiformis and B. fuscescens, fall into a variation range of a single species. In addition, a new undescribed<br />

North American species will be presented.<br />

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