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PhotobiontDiversity.org: A searchable database of photobiont sequences

Posted on November 5, 2013 by heath.obrien

After six months of working on this project, I’ve amassed a collection of over 5,500 sequences from lichen photobionts and their relatives. Storage and retrieval of this data using text files has become increasingly unwieldy for me, and I suspect … Continue reading →

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Welcome to PhotobiontDiversity

Posted on April 24, 2013 by heath.obrien

As with most organisms, DNA sequencing has revolutionised our understanding of the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of lichen photobionts over the last two decades. However, unlike most organisms, these insights have rarely been translated to formal taxonomic changes and … Continue reading →

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