Bernard Goffinet – Bryology (and Lichenology)

Former postdoc Antoine Simon and honors student Dinah Parker led a study now published on photomorphs of New World Peltigerales: Simon A., D. Parker, J.A. Chimal Ballesteros, J. Orlando & B. Goffinet. 2024. The identity of the North American endemic Dendriscocaulon intricatulum and two southern South American cyanomorphs in the Peltigerales. The Bryologist 127: 441–464. […]

Buck, W.R. & B. Goffinet. 2024. A new checklist of the mosses of the continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist 127: 484–549. pdf The list is being and will continued to be updated on this site. Abstract reads:  The checklist includes a listing of the genera and species of North American Bryophyta thought to […]

Goffinet, B. 2024. Reporting Rutenbergia madagassa Geheeb & Hampe new to the Comoros. In Ellis L.T., O.M. Afonina, M. Alataş, H.B. M. Alia, J. Alvarez, A.M. Aponte Rojas, J.J. Atwood, G. Bacilliere, N. Batan, V. Biberdžić, M.A. Bruggeman-Nannenga, L.V. Campos, M.J. Cano, L.F. Coca, I.V. Czernyadjeva, S. de Faria Lopes, Q. Dejonghe, S. Dragićević, H. […]

Vuruputoor V.S., A. Starovoitov, Y. Cai, Y. Liu, N. Rahmatpour, T. Hedderson, N. Wilding, J.L. Wegrzyn & B. Goffinet. Crossroads of assembling a moss genome: navigating contaminants and horizontal gene transfer in the moss Physcomitrellopsis africana. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 14(7): jkae104. pdf  Google Scholar Abstract reads:  The first chromosome-scale reference genome of the rare […]

Zach has received a 2024 Evolutionary, Ecological, and Conservation Genomics (EECG) Research Award ($6,000) from the American Genetics Association for his project “Unveiling the mysteries of fog lichens: Phylogenomic insights into the phenotypic diversity of a niche-specific radiation. Congratulations!