Sticta phylogeny working group met in Storrs

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Collaborators on the NSF project focus on the Sticta phylogeny met in Storrs from Sept. 14-18. Reports included an update on new species discovered in Madagascar, China, Colombia and other parts of the world, as well as mt genome structure in these lichenized fungi and their associated cyanobacteria.

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From left to right: Todd Widhelm and Thorsten Lumsch (Chicago Field Museum), Bibiana Moncada (Universidad Distrital in Colombia), Emmanuël Sérusiaux (Uni. Liège), Rafael Medina & Bernard Goffinet (UConn) and Robert Lücking (Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin).