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2025

i Tangerine i : a i Starship i -like element in the genomes of i Xanthoria i lichen-forming fungi

Tangerine : a Starship -like element in the genomes of Xanthoria lichen-forming fungi

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Angus Bucknell, Ellen S. Cameron, Robert D. Finn, Mark Blaxter, Megan C. McDonald, Nicholas J. Talbot

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · 27 Nov 2025 · doi:10.1101/2025.11.25.690456

Chromosome level genome assembly of the photobiont microalga i Trebouxia i sp. scp A48 scp from the lichen i Xanthoria parietina i

Chromosome‐level genome assembly of the photobiont microalga Trebouxia sp. ‘ A48 ’ from the lichen Xanthoria parietina

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Jasper Raistrick, Nicholas J. Talbot

New Phytologist · 10 Nov 2025 · doi:10.1111/nph.70728

This paper was featured in Plant Science Research Weekly in Plantae

Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Klara Scharnagl, Neha Sahu, Xia Yan, Angus Bucknell, …, Sandra Lorena Ament-Velásquez, Ioana Onuț-Brännström, Hanna Johannesson, Dan MacLean, Nicholas J. Talbot

Current Biology · 01 Feb 2025 · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.041

This paper was featured on the cover, in a commentary by Chrismas & Yahr, as well as was highlighted in Science

Massive Gene Loss in the Fungus i Sporothrix epigloea i Accompanied a Shift to Life in a Glucuronoxylomannan-based Gel Matrix

Massive Gene Loss in the Fungus Sporothrix epigloea Accompanied a Shift to Life in a Glucuronoxylomannan-based Gel Matrix

Carmen C G Allen, David Díaz-Escandón, Sarah DeLong-Duhon, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Alejandro Huereca, Shauna Reckseidler-Zenteno, Andrew Forbes, Toby Spribille

Genome Biology and Evolution · 27 Jan 2025 · doi:10.1093/gbe/evaf015

2024

Microbial occurrence and symbiont detection in a global sample of lichen metagenomes

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Paul Saary, Ellen S. Cameron, Carmen C. G. Allen, Arkadiy I. Garber, …, Håkon Holien, Tor Tønsberg, Lisa Y. Stein, Robert D. Finn, Toby Spribille

PLOS Biology · 07 Nov 2024 · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002862

2023

Genomic analysis of Coccomyxa viridis, a common low-abundance alga associated with lichen symbioses

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Klara Scharnagl, Xia Yan, Nicholas J. Talbot

Scientific Reports · 02 Dec 2023 · doi:10.1038/s41598-023-48637-w

The coming golden age for lichen biology

Klara Scharnagl, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Nicholas J. Talbot

Current Biology · 01 Jun 2023 · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.054.

Essay on the open questions in lichen biology

2022

Genome-level analyses resolve an ancient lineage of symbiotic ascomycetes

David Díaz-Escandón, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Dan Vanderpool, Carmen C.G. Allen, André Aptroot, …, Kerry Knudsen, Jana Kocourková, Robert Lücking, Philipp Resl, Toby Spribille

Current Biology · 01 Dec 2022 · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.014

Large differences in carbohydrate degradation and transport potential among lichen fungal symbionts

Philipp Resl, Adina R. Bujold, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Peter Meidl, Sandra Freire Rallo, …, John P. McCutcheon, Mats Wedin, Silke Werth, Lisa M. Willis, Toby Spribille

Nature Communications · 12 May 2022 · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30218-6

Evolutionary biology of lichen symbioses

Toby Spribille, Philipp Resl, Daniel E. Stanton, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova

New Phytologist · 18 Mar 2022 · doi:10.1111/nph.18048

This paper was featured on the cover as well as in a commentary by Kranner et al.

2021

Lichen fungi do not depend on the alga for ATP production: A comment on Pogoda et al. (2018)

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, John P. McCutcheon, Toby Spribille

Molecular Ecology · 07 Jul 2021 · doi:10.1111/mec.16010

Predicted Input of Uncultured Fungal Symbionts to a Lichen Symbiosis from Metagenome-Assembled Genomes

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Paul Saary, Jeffrey P Tingley, David Díaz-Escandón, D Wade Abbott, Robert D Finn, Toby Spribille

Genome Biology and Evolution · 09 Mar 2021 · doi:10.1093/gbe/evab047

2020

3D biofilms: in search of the polysaccharides holding together lichen symbioses

Toby Spribille, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Spencer Goyette, Veera Tuovinen, Rebecca Case, Wesley F Zandberg

FEMS Microbiology Letters · 10 Feb 2020 · doi:10.1093/femsle/fnaa023

2019

Distribution and assessment of the conservation status of i Erioderma pedicellatum i in Asia

Distribution and assessment of the conservation status ofErioderma pedicellatumin Asia

Gulnara TAGIRDZHANOVA, Irina S. STEPANCHIKOVA, Dmitry E. HIMELBRANT, Marina P. VYATKINA, Aleksandra V. DYOMINA, Veronika G. DIRKSEN, Christoph SCHEIDEGGER

The Lichenologist · 01 Nov 2019 · doi:10.1017/S0024282919000380

New records of lichens and allied fungi from the Leningrad Region, Russia. X

Dmitry E. Himelbrant, Irina S. Stepanchikova, Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Ekaterina S. Kuznetsova, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Ivan V. Frolov

Folia Cryptogamica Estonica · 11 Jun 2019 · doi:10.12697/fce.2019.56.04

2016

Ninety-One Species of Lichens and Allied Fungi New to Latvia with a List of Additional Records from Kurzeme

Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Sergei V. Chesnokov, Paweł Czarnota, Ludmila V. Gagarina, Ivan Frolov, …, Irina Stepanchikova, Ave Suija, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Arne Thell, Andrei Tsurykau

Herzogia · 01 Jun 2016 · doi:10.13158/heia.29.1.2016.143

2015

New records of lichens and allied fungi from the Leningrad Region, Russia. VI

Dmitry Himelbrant, Irina Stepanchikova, Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Jan Vondrak, Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Ludmila Gagarina, Ekaterina Kuznetsova

Folia Cryptogamica Estonica · 19 Aug 2015 · doi:10.12697/fce.2015.52.03

2014

New records of lichens and allied fungi from the Leningrad Region, Russia. V

Dmitry E. Himelbrant, Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Irina S. Stepanchikova, Gulnara M. Tagirdzhanova

Folia Cryptogamica Estonica · 10 Jul 2014 · doi:10.12697/fce.2014.51.04

New lichen records from the Novgorod Region, Russia

Gulnara M. Tagirdzhanova, Olga A. Kataeva, Irina S. Stepanhcikova

Folia Cryptogamica Estonica · 10 Jul 2014 · doi:10.12697/fce.2014.51.11