Abigail R. Meyer

Moving to the city changed you! Rapid photobiont turnover enables acclimation of lichen symbioses to urban environments

The paper shows that lichen symbioses can adapt to urban stress by rapidly changing their photobiont community composition.

Lichen symbiosis does not impose a uniform genomic syndrome on algae

This study examines whether lichen symbiosis imposes a uniform genomic syndrome on algae by analyzing molecular evolution signatures across four lichen-forming algal taxa and their free-living relatives.