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Science 13 April 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4082, pp. 196 - 198
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4082.196
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Parallel Evoluton in Lichen-Forming Fungi

William Louis Culberson 1 and Chicita F. Culberson 1

1 Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706

The asexual lichen-forming fungus Parmelia hypotropa has two common chemical races that differ sharply in biogeography and niche characteristics and appear to have been derived by morphologic parallelism from chemically identical races of the closely related Parmelia perforata, which is sexual. Among the lichen fungi many chemically variable asexual morphs, which conventional taxonomies treat as species, are probably polyphyletic like Parmelia hypotropa.


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