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Charles Dismukes
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Water and Vapor Transport in Algal‐Fungal Lichen
Modeling constrained by Laboratory Experiments, an application for Flavoparmelia caperata
Algal-fungal symbionts share water, nutrients, and gases via an architecture unique to lichens. Because lichen activity is controlled by moisture dynamics, understanding water transport is prerequisite to understand their fundamental biology. We propose a model of water distribut
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Symbiosis extended
Exchange of photosynthetic O2 and fungal-respired CO2 mutually power metabolism of lichen symbionts
Lichens are a symbiosis between a fungus and one or more photosynthetic microorganisms that enables the symbionts to thrive in places and conditions they could not compete independently. Exchanges of water and sugars between the symbionts are the established mechanisms that suppo
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Lichens have developed unique strategies to control water, oxygen and photosynthate (sugar product) fluxes between the algal photobiont and its fungal host that provide a model for gas-liquid separation and transport. We measured in parallel the kinetics of dehydration (water con
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