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THE FUNGUS‐ALGA ASSOCIATION IN THE LECIDEACEAE: AN ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDY *
Author(s) -
GALLUN MARGALITH,
BENSHAUL Y.,
PARAN NAVAH
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1971.tb02549.x
Subject(s) - thallus , fungus , biology , ultrastructure , botany , positive correlation , medicine
S ummary The relationship between fungus and alga in three Lecidea species was examined by electron microscopy. The contact between the symbionts ranged from intracellular fungal invasion in the primitively organized thallus to a looser association of wall‐to‐wall attachment in the more highly differentiated growth‐forms. The correlation between the symbiont association and thallus development has been compared with a similar correlation found in the Lecanoraceae.