List of works - Imke Schmitt

6-MSAS-like polyketide synthase genes occur in lichenized ascomycetes

scientific article

A Glimpse into Genetic Diversity and Symbiont Interaction Patterns in Lichen Communities from Areas with Different Disturbance Histories in Białowieża Forest, Poland

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina

scientific article

A new circumscription of the genus Varicellaria (Pertusariales, Ascomycota)

scientific article

Adaptive differentiation coincides with local bioclimatic conditions along an elevational cline in populations of a lichen-forming fungus

scientific article

An Illumina metabarcoding pipeline for fungi

scientific article

Ancient horizontal gene transfer from bacteria enhances biosynthetic capabilities of fungi

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Antimicrobial-producing Pseudoalteromonas from the marine environment of Panama shows a high phylogenetic diversity and clonal structure

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Ascoma morphology is homoplaseous and phylogenetically misleading in some pyrenocarpous lichens

scientific article published in March 2005

Ascus types are phylogenetically misleading in Trapeliaceae and Agyriaceae (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota).

scientific article

Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits

scientific article (publication date: October 2004)

Assessing intraspecific diversity in a lichen-forming fungus and its green algal symbiont: Evaluation of eight molecular markers

scientific article published in 2013

Author Correction: Comparing Sanger sequencing and high-throughput metabarcoding for inferring photobiont diversity in lichens

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Biosynthetic Gene Content of the 'Perfume Lichens' and

article

Burkholderia rhizoxinica sp. nov. and Burkholderia endofungorum sp. nov., bacterial endosymbionts of the plant-pathogenic fungus Rhizopus microsporus

scientific article

Characterization of fungus-specific microsatellite markers in the lichen-forming fungus Parmelina carporrhizans (Parmeliaceae).

scientific article

Chemosyndrome Variation in Mycobiont Culture and Thallus of Parmelina carporrhizans and Parmelina quercina

article

Circumscription of the genus Lepra, a recently resurrected genus to accommodate the "Variolaria"-group of Pertusaria sensu lato (Pertusariales, Ascomycota)

scientific article

Climate‐specific biosynthetic gene clusters in populations of a lichen‐forming fungus

scientific article published in 2021

Coalescent-based species delimitation approach uncovers high cryptic diversity in the cosmopolitan lichen-forming fungal genus Protoparmelia (Lecanorales, Ascomycota)

scientific article

Comparing Sanger sequencing and high-throughput metabarcoding for inferring photobiont diversity in lichens.

scientific article published on 5 June 2018

Comparison of ITS1 and ITS2 rDNA in 454 sequencing of hyperdiverse fungal communities

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Corrigendum to “Assessing intraspecific diversity in a lichen-forming fungus and its green algal symbiont: Evaluation of eight molecular markers” [Fungal Ecology (2012) 141–151]

scientific article published in 2013

Different diversification histories in tropical and temperate lineages in the ascomycete subfamily Protoparmelioideae (Parmeliaceae)

scientific article

Diversity of non-reducing polyketide synthase genes in the Pertusariales (lichenized Ascomycota): a phylogenetic perspective

scientific article published in June 2005

Environment and host identity structure communities of green algal symbionts in lichens.

scientific article

Evolution of complex symbiotic relationships in a morphologically derived family of lichen-forming fungi

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Evolution of host resistance in a toxin-producing bacterial-fungal alliance

scientific article

Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species' responses to climate change

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Expanding the mutualistic niche: parallel symbiont turnover along climatic gradients

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Fungal-algal association patterns in lichen symbiosis linked to macroclimate.

scientific article

Genetic and environmental interactions determine plant defences against herbivores

article

Genetic basis of self-incompatibility in the lichen-forming fungus Lobaria pulmonaria and skewed frequency distribution of mating-type idiomorphs: implications for conservation

scientific article

Global distribution and evolution of a toxinogenic Burkholderia-Rhizopus symbiosis

scientific article

Gyalectoid Pertusaria species form a sister-clade to Coccotrema (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota) and comprise the new lichen genus Gyalectaria

scientific article published in 2010

Habitat and tree species identity shape aboveground and belowground fungal communities in central European forests

scientific article published in 2023

High throughput sequencing combined with null model tests reveals specific plant‐fungi associations linked to seedling establishment and survival

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Higher level phylogenetic relationships of euascomycetes (Pezizomycotina) inferred from a combined analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data ⬇️

scientific article published in 2002

Host genotype shapes the foliar fungal microbiome of balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera).

scientific article

ITS sequence data suggest variability of ascus types and support ontogenetic characters as phylogenetic discriminators in the Agyriales (Ascomycota)

scholarly article by Helge Thorsten Lumbsch et al published March 2001 in Mycological Research

Identification of the Sfp-Type PPTase EppA from the Lichenized Fungus Evernia prunastri

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Illumina metabarcoding of a soil fungal community

Insights into intrathalline genetic diversity of the cosmopolitan lichen symbiotic green alga Trebouxia decolorans Ahmadjian using microsatellite markers

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

Integrating coalescent and phylogenetic approaches to delimit species in the lichen photobiont Trebouxia.

scientific article

Lecanoric acid mediates anti-proliferative effects by an M phase arrest in colon cancer cells

scientific article published in April 2022

Lichen holobionts show compositional structure along elevation

scientific article published in 2022

Meta-analysis of deep-sequenced fungal communities indicates limited taxon sharing between studies and the presence of biogeographic patterns

scientific article

Metagenomic data reveal diverse fungal and algal communities associated with the lichen symbiosis

Microsatellite primers in the lichen symbiotic alga Trebouxia decolorans (Trebouxiophyceae)

scientific article

Molecular data confirm that Omphalina foliacea is a lichen-forming basidiomycete

scientific article

Molecular data place Trypetheliaceae in Dothideomycetes.

scientific article

Molecular data support rejection of the generic concept in the Coccotremataceae (Ascomycota)

Molecular phylogeny of the Pertusariaceae supports secondary chemistry as an important systematic character set in lichen-forming ascomycetes

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Molecular systematics supports the recognition of an additional order of Ascomycota: the Agyriales

scholarly article by Helge Thorsten Lumbsch et al published January 2001 in Mycological Research

Multiple evolutionary origins of legume traits leading to extreme rhizobial differentiation

scientific article published on 28 April 2010

Neoprotoparmelia gen. nov. and Maronina (Lecanorales, Protoparmelioideae): species description and generic delimitation using DNA barcodes and phenotypical characters

scientific article published in 2018

Ochrolechia incarnata comb. nov. (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a distinct species of the O. parella group from Europe and Macaronesia

scientific article published in 2018

Ochrolechia kerguelensis sp. nov. from the Southern Hemisphere and O. antarctica reinstated from the synonymy of O. parella

scientific article (publication date: 19 October 2016)

Panmixia and dispersal from the Mediterranean Basin to Macaronesian Islands of a macrolichen species.

scientific article

Parmotrema hydrium, a new species of Parmeliaceae in southeastern Brazil

scientific article published in December 2013

Performance of four ribosomal DNA regions to infer higher-level phylogenetic relationships of inoperculate euascomycetes (Leotiomyceta).

scientific article

Phylogenetic generic classification of parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence

scientific article published on December 2010

Phylogenetic methods in natural product research

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships of Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) as revealed by analyses of mtSSU and nLSU rDNA sequence data

scientific article

Phylogeny of the lichen genus Placopsis and its allies based on Bayesian analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial sequences.

scientific article published in September 2003

Potential and pitfalls of eukaryotic metagenome skimming: a test case for lichens

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Purifying selection is a prevailing motif in the evolution of ketoacyl synthase domains of polyketide synthases from lichenized fungi

scientific article published on 15 September 2007

Quantifying the climatic niche of symbiont partners in a lichen symbiosis indicates mutualist-mediated niche expansions

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny ⬇️

scientific article

Relocation, high-latitude warming and host genetic identity shape the foliar fungal microbiome of poplars

scientific article

Repeated evolution of closed fruiting bodies is linked to ascoma development in the largest group of lichenized fungi (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota).

scientific article

Season-Long Experimental Drought Alters Fungal Community Composition but Not Diversity in a Grassland Soil

scientific article

Sequencing genomes from mixed DNA samples - evaluating the metagenome skimming approach in lichenized fungi

scientific article

Spatial patterns of pathogenic and mutualistic fungi across the elevational range of a host plant

scientific article published on 07 February 2018

Supraordinal phylogenetic relationships of Lecanoromycetes based on a Bayesian analysis of combined nuclear and mitochondrial sequences

scientific article published in June 2004

Surveying lichen diversity in forests: A comparison of expert mapping and eDNA metabarcoding of bark surfaces

scientific article published in 2024

The Temporal Variation of Secondary Metabolites in the Mycobiont Culture and Thallus of Parmelina carporrhizans and Parmelina quercina Analyzed using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

scientific article published in 2023

The lichen symbiosis re-viewed through the genomes of Cladonia grayi and its algal partner Asterochloris glomerata

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

The phylogenetic placement of Ostropales within Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) revisited

scientific article

The sister-group relationships of the largest family of lichenized fungi, Parmeliaceae (Lecanorales, Ascomycota).

scientific article

Triggering the production of the cryptic blue pigment indigoidine from Photorhabdus luminescens

scientific article published on 4 November 2011

Unraveling the Pharmacological Potential of Lichen Extracts in the Context of Cancer and Inflammation With a Broad Screening Approach

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

Using a temporal phylogenetic method to harmonize family- and genus-level classification in the largest clade of lichen-forming fungi

scholarly article by Pradeep K. Divakar et al published 11 April 2017 in Fungal Diversity

What is in Umbilicaria pustulata? A metagenomic approach to reconstruct the holo-genome of a lichen

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Whole-Genome Sequence Data Uncover Widespread Heterothallism in the Largest Group of Lichen-Forming Fungi

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

List of works by Imke Schmitt

6-MSAS-like polyketide synthase genes occur in lichenized ascomycetes

A Glimpse into Genetic Diversity and Symbiont Interaction Patterns in Lichen Communities from Areas with Different Disturbance Histories in Białowieża Forest, Poland

A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina

A new circumscription of the genus Varicellaria (Pertusariales, Ascomycota)

Adaptive differentiation coincides with local bioclimatic conditions along an elevational cline in populations of a lichen-forming fungus

An Illumina metabarcoding pipeline for fungi

Ancient horizontal gene transfer from bacteria enhances biosynthetic capabilities of fungi

Antimicrobial-producing Pseudoalteromonas from the marine environment of Panama shows a high phylogenetic diversity and clonal structure

Ascoma morphology is homoplaseous and phylogenetically misleading in some pyrenocarpous lichens

Ascus types are phylogenetically misleading in Trapeliaceae and Agyriaceae (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota).

Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits

Assessing intraspecific diversity in a lichen-forming fungus and its green algal symbiont: Evaluation of eight molecular markers

Author Correction: Comparing Sanger sequencing and high-throughput metabarcoding for inferring photobiont diversity in lichens

Biosynthetic Gene Content of the 'Perfume Lichens' and

Burkholderia rhizoxinica sp. nov. and Burkholderia endofungorum sp. nov., bacterial endosymbionts of the plant-pathogenic fungus Rhizopus microsporus

Characterization of fungus-specific microsatellite markers in the lichen-forming fungus Parmelina carporrhizans (Parmeliaceae).

Chemosyndrome Variation in Mycobiont Culture and Thallus of Parmelina carporrhizans and Parmelina quercina

Circumscription of the genus Lepra, a recently resurrected genus to accommodate the "Variolaria"-group of Pertusaria sensu lato (Pertusariales, Ascomycota)

Climate‐specific biosynthetic gene clusters in populations of a lichen‐forming fungus

Coalescent-based species delimitation approach uncovers high cryptic diversity in the cosmopolitan lichen-forming fungal genus Protoparmelia (Lecanorales, Ascomycota)

Comparing Sanger sequencing and high-throughput metabarcoding for inferring photobiont diversity in lichens.

Comparison of ITS1 and ITS2 rDNA in 454 sequencing of hyperdiverse fungal communities

Corrigendum to “Assessing intraspecific diversity in a lichen-forming fungus and its green algal symbiont: Evaluation of eight molecular markers” [Fungal Ecology (2012) 141–151]

Different diversification histories in tropical and temperate lineages in the ascomycete subfamily Protoparmelioideae (Parmeliaceae)

Diversity of non-reducing polyketide synthase genes in the Pertusariales (lichenized Ascomycota): a phylogenetic perspective

Environment and host identity structure communities of green algal symbionts in lichens.

Evolution of complex symbiotic relationships in a morphologically derived family of lichen-forming fungi

Evolution of host resistance in a toxin-producing bacterial-fungal alliance

Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species' responses to climate change

Expanding the mutualistic niche: parallel symbiont turnover along climatic gradients

Fungal-algal association patterns in lichen symbiosis linked to macroclimate.

Genetic and environmental interactions determine plant defences against herbivores

Genetic basis of self-incompatibility in the lichen-forming fungus Lobaria pulmonaria and skewed frequency distribution of mating-type idiomorphs: implications for conservation

Global distribution and evolution of a toxinogenic Burkholderia-Rhizopus symbiosis

Gyalectoid Pertusaria species form a sister-clade to Coccotrema (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota) and comprise the new lichen genus Gyalectaria

Habitat and tree species identity shape aboveground and belowground fungal communities in central European forests

High throughput sequencing combined with null model tests reveals specific plant‐fungi associations linked to seedling establishment and survival

Higher level phylogenetic relationships of euascomycetes (Pezizomycotina) inferred from a combined analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data ⬇️

Host genotype shapes the foliar fungal microbiome of balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera).

ITS sequence data suggest variability of ascus types and support ontogenetic characters as phylogenetic discriminators in the Agyriales (Ascomycota)

Identification of the Sfp-Type PPTase EppA from the Lichenized Fungus Evernia prunastri

Illumina metabarcoding of a soil fungal community

Insights into intrathalline genetic diversity of the cosmopolitan lichen symbiotic green alga Trebouxia decolorans Ahmadjian using microsatellite markers

Integrating coalescent and phylogenetic approaches to delimit species in the lichen photobiont Trebouxia.

Lecanoric acid mediates anti-proliferative effects by an M phase arrest in colon cancer cells

Lichen holobionts show compositional structure along elevation

Meta-analysis of deep-sequenced fungal communities indicates limited taxon sharing between studies and the presence of biogeographic patterns

Metagenomic data reveal diverse fungal and algal communities associated with the lichen symbiosis

Metagenomic data reveal diverse fungal and algal communities associated with the lichen symbiosis

Microsatellite primers in the lichen symbiotic alga Trebouxia decolorans (Trebouxiophyceae)

Molecular data confirm that Omphalina foliacea is a lichen-forming basidiomycete

Molecular data place Trypetheliaceae in Dothideomycetes.

Molecular data support rejection of the generic concept in the Coccotremataceae (Ascomycota)

Molecular phylogeny of the Pertusariaceae supports secondary chemistry as an important systematic character set in lichen-forming ascomycetes

Molecular systematics supports the recognition of an additional order of Ascomycota: the Agyriales

Multiple evolutionary origins of legume traits leading to extreme rhizobial differentiation

Neoprotoparmelia gen. nov. and Maronina (Lecanorales, Protoparmelioideae): species description and generic delimitation using DNA barcodes and phenotypical characters

Ochrolechia incarnata comb. nov. (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a distinct species of the O. parella group from Europe and Macaronesia

Ochrolechia kerguelensis sp. nov. from the Southern Hemisphere and O. antarctica reinstated from the synonymy of O. parella

Panmixia and dispersal from the Mediterranean Basin to Macaronesian Islands of a macrolichen species.

Parmotrema hydrium, a new species of Parmeliaceae in southeastern Brazil

Performance of four ribosomal DNA regions to infer higher-level phylogenetic relationships of inoperculate euascomycetes (Leotiomyceta).

Phylogenetic generic classification of parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence

Phylogenetic methods in natural product research

Phylogenetic relationships of Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) as revealed by analyses of mtSSU and nLSU rDNA sequence data

Phylogeny of the lichen genus Placopsis and its allies based on Bayesian analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial sequences.

Potential and pitfalls of eukaryotic metagenome skimming: a test case for lichens

Purifying selection is a prevailing motif in the evolution of ketoacyl synthase domains of polyketide synthases from lichenized fungi

Quantifying the climatic niche of symbiont partners in a lichen symbiosis indicates mutualist-mediated niche expansions

Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny ⬇️

Relocation, high-latitude warming and host genetic identity shape the foliar fungal microbiome of poplars

Repeated evolution of closed fruiting bodies is linked to ascoma development in the largest group of lichenized fungi (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota).

Season-Long Experimental Drought Alters Fungal Community Composition but Not Diversity in a Grassland Soil

Sequencing genomes from mixed DNA samples - evaluating the metagenome skimming approach in lichenized fungi

Spatial patterns of pathogenic and mutualistic fungi across the elevational range of a host plant

Supraordinal phylogenetic relationships of Lecanoromycetes based on a Bayesian analysis of combined nuclear and mitochondrial sequences

Surveying lichen diversity in forests: A comparison of expert mapping and eDNA metabarcoding of bark surfaces

The Temporal Variation of Secondary Metabolites in the Mycobiont Culture and Thallus of Parmelina carporrhizans and Parmelina quercina Analyzed using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

The lichen symbiosis re-viewed through the genomes of Cladonia grayi and its algal partner Asterochloris glomerata