Bernard Goffinet – Bryology (and Lichenology)

Crystal Zhu, Zach Muscavitch and Bernard were invited to join the multidisciplinary expedition to parts of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. Crystal and Bernard focused on various groups of Peltigerales (lichens) whereas Zach explore the whole diversity. Together we came back with ± 700 collections, which will be added to the CONN herbarium, with duplicates […]

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 […]