List of works - Steven D. Leavitt

(2396) Proposal to conserve the name Lichen muralis (Lecanora muralis, Protoparmeliopsis muralis) with a conserved type (Ascomycota: Lecanorales: Lecanoraceae)

scientific article

Circinaria nimisii (Megasporaceae, lichenized Ascomycota), a new manna lichen from Greece

scientific article published in 2023

A DNA barcoding approach for identification of hidden diversity in Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota):Parmelia sensu strictoas a case study

scientific article published in 2015

A Matter of Time — Understanding the Limits of the Power of Molecular Data for Delimiting Species Boundaries

scientific article published in 2016

A Molecular Phylogeny of the Lichen Genus Lecidella Focusing on Species from Mainland China

scientific article

A Tale of Two Hyper-diversities: Diversification dynamics of the two largest families of lichenized fungi

scientific article

A new North American species of Hyperphyscia (Physciaceae)

article

A review of the lichen family Parmeliaceae - history, phylogeny and current taxonomy

article

A revised classification of orders and families in the two major subclasses of Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) based on a temporal approach

scientific article published in 2018

A temporal banding approach for consistent taxonomic ranking above the species level.

scientific article

Accelerated diversifications in three diverse families of morphologically complex lichen-forming fungi link to major historical events

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Additions to the genus Trapelia (Trapeliaceae: lichenised Ascomycetes)

article

Alpine lichen diversity in an isolated sky island in the Colorado Plateau, USA—Insight from an integrative biodiversity inventory

scientific article published in 2021

An Integrative Approach for Understanding Diversity in the Punctelia rudecta Species Complex (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota).

scientific article

Characterization of microsatellite markers in the cosmopolitan lichen-forming fungus Rhizoplaca melanophthalma (Lecanoraceae)

scientific article

Characterizing the ribosomal tandem repeat and its utility as a DNA barcode in lichen-forming fungi

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

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

scientific article

Complex patterns of speciation in cosmopolitan "rock posy" lichens--discovering and delimiting cryptic fungal species in the lichen-forming Rhizoplaca melanophthalma species-complex (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota).

scientific article

Contrasting Patterns of Climatic Niche Divergence in Trebouxia—A Clade of Lichen-Forming Algae

scientific article published on 15 February 2022

Corrections and amendments to the 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota

article

Cryptic diversity and symbiont interactions in rock-posy lichens

scientific article

DNA barcode identification of lichen-forming fungal species in the Rhizoplaca melanophthalma species-complex (Lecanorales, Lecanoraceae), including five new species

scientific article

DNA barcoding of brown Parmeliae (Parmeliaceae) species: a molecular approach for accurate specimen identification, emphasizing species in Greenland

article

Diversification of the newly recognized lichen-forming fungal lineage Montanelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) and its relation to key geological and climatic events

scientific article

Diversity of Xanthoparmelia (Parmeliaceae) species in Mexican xerophytic scrub vegetation, evidenced by molecular, morphological and chemistry data ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 June 2021

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

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

scientific article

Formally described species woefully underrepresent phylogenetic diversity in the common lichen photobiont genus Trebouxia (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta): An impetus for developing an integrated taxonomy

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Fruticose Lichen Communities at the Edge: Distribution and Diversity in a Desert Sky Island on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2022

Fungal specificity and selectivity for algae play a major role in determining lichen partnerships across diverse ecogeographic regions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota).

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Genome-scale data resolve ancestral rock-inhabiting lifestyle in Dothideomycetes (Ascomycota)

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Genome-scale data reveal the role of hybridization in lichen-forming fungi

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Hidden diversity before our eyes: Delimiting and describing cryptic lichen-forming fungal species in camouflage lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota).

scientific article

How do you solve a problem like Letharia? A new look at cryptic species in lichen-forming fungi using Bayesian clustering and SNPs from multilocus sequence data

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Is targeted community DNA metabarcoding suitable for biodiversity inventories of lichen-forming fungi?

scientific article published in 2019

Kalbionora palaeotropica, a new genus and species from coastal forests in Southeast Asia and Australia (Malmideaceae, Ascomycota)

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Lampenflora in a Show Cave in the Great Basin Is Distinct from Communities on Naturally Lit Rock Surfaces in Nearby Wild Caves

scientific article published in 2021

Lichen flora of the eastern Mojave Desert: Blackrock Arizona, Mojave County, Arizona, USA ⬇️

scientific article published in 2005

Limitations of Species Delimitation Based on Phylogenetic Analyses: A Case Study in the Hypogymnia hypotrypa Group (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Local representation of global diversity in a cosmopolitan lichen-forming fungal species complex (Rhizoplaca, Ascomycota)

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

Miocene and Pliocene dominated diversification of the lichen-forming fungal genus Melanohalea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) and Pleistocene population expansions

scientific article (publication date: 11 September 2012)

Miocene divergence, phenotypically cryptic lineages, and contrasting distribution patterns in common lichen-forming fungi (Ascomycota: Parmeliaceae)

Molecular data show that Hypotrachyna sorocheila (Parmeliaceae) is not monophyletic

scientific article published in 2016

Multilocus phylogeny of the lichen-forming fungal genus Melanohalea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota): Insights on diversity, distributions, and a comparison of species tree and concatenated topologies ⬇️

scientific article published on September 24, 2012

Multiple, Distinct Intercontinental Lineages but Isolation of Australian Populations in a Cosmopolitan Lichen-Forming Fungal Taxon, Psora decipiens (Psoraceae, Ascomycota).

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Neogene-dominated diversification in neotropical montane lichens: dating divergence events in the lichen-forming fungal genus Oropogon (Parmeliaceae).

scientific article

Photobiont Diversity in Lichen Symbioses From Extreme Environments

scientific article published on 29 March 2022

Phylogenetic studies uncover a predominantly African lineage in a widely distributed lichen-forming fungal species

scientific article

Phylogenetic study and taxonomic revision of the group, including the description of a new species (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Pleistocene speciation in North American lichenized fungi and the impact of alternative species circumscriptions and rates of molecular evolution on divergence estimates

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Polyphyly of the genus Canoparmelia—uncovering incongruences between phenotype-based classification and molecular phylogeny within lichenized Ascomycota (Parmeliaceae)

scientific article (publication date: 20 December 2016)

Providing Scale to a Known Taxonomic Unknown—At Least a 70-Fold Increase in Species Diversity in a Cosmopolitan Nominal Taxon of Lichen-Forming Fungi

scientific article published in 2022

Reference-based RADseq resolves robust relationships among closely related species of lichen-forming fungi using metagenomic DNA.

scientific article

Resolving evolutionary relationships in lichen-forming fungi using diverse phylogenomic datasets and analytical approaches

scientific article

Shotgun sequencing decades-old lichen specimens to resolve phylogenomic placement of type material ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2019

Species boundaries in the messy middle-A genome-scale validation of species delimitation in a recently diverged lineage of coastal fog desert lichen fungi

scientific article published on 19 December 2021

Species delimitation and evolution in morphologically and chemically diverse communities of the lichen‐forming genus Xanthoparmelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) in western North America ⬇️

scientific article published on January 25, 2011

Species delimitation in taxonomically difficult lichen-forming fungi: an example from morphologically and chemically diverse Xanthoparmelia (Parmeliaceae) in North America

scientific article

Species in lichen-forming fungi: balancing between conceptual and practical considerations, and between phenotype and phylogenomics ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Testing the impact of effective population size on speciation rates - a negative correlation or lack thereof in lichenized fungi.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota – Approaching one thousand genera

scientific article (publication date: December 2016)

The monotypic genusBulborrhizinabelongs toBulbothrixsensu lato (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

scientific article published in 2015

Towards a revised generic classification of lecanoroid lichens (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence

article

Two New Species and Two New Records of the Lichen-Forming Fungal Genus Peltula (Ascomycota: Peltulaceae) from China

scientific article published in 2022

Understanding phenotypical character evolution in parmelioid lichenized fungi (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

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

Using multi-locus sequence data for addressing species boundaries in commonly accepted lichen-forming fungal species

Using target enrichment sequencing to study the higher-level phylogeny of the largest lichen-forming fungi family: Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota)

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Who's getting around? Assessing species diversity and phylogeography in the widely distributed lichen-forming fungal genus Montanelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota).

scientific article published on 16 May 2015

List of works by Steven D. Leavitt

(2396) Proposal to conserve the name Lichen muralis (Lecanora muralis, Protoparmeliopsis muralis) with a conserved type (Ascomycota: Lecanorales: Lecanoraceae)

<i>Circinaria nimisii</i> (<i>Megasporaceae</i>, lichenized <i>Ascomycota</i>), a new manna lichen from Greece

A DNA barcoding approach for identification of hidden diversity in Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota):Parmelia sensu strictoas a case study

A Matter of Time — Understanding the Limits of the Power of Molecular Data for Delimiting Species Boundaries

A Molecular Phylogeny of the Lichen Genus Lecidella Focusing on Species from Mainland China

A Tale of Two Hyper-diversities: Diversification dynamics of the two largest families of lichenized fungi

A new North American species of Hyperphyscia (Physciaceae)

A review of the lichen family Parmeliaceae - history, phylogeny and current taxonomy

A revised classification of orders and families in the two major subclasses of Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) based on a temporal approach

A temporal banding approach for consistent taxonomic ranking above the species level.

Accelerated diversifications in three diverse families of morphologically complex lichen-forming fungi link to major historical events

Additions to the genus Trapelia (Trapeliaceae: lichenised Ascomycetes)

Alpine lichen diversity in an isolated sky island in the Colorado Plateau, USA—Insight from an integrative biodiversity inventory

An Integrative Approach for Understanding Diversity in the Punctelia rudecta Species Complex (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota).

Characterization of microsatellite markers in the cosmopolitan lichen-forming fungus Rhizoplaca melanophthalma (Lecanoraceae)

Characterizing the ribosomal tandem repeat and its utility as a DNA barcode in lichen-forming fungi

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

Complex patterns of speciation in cosmopolitan "rock posy" lichens--discovering and delimiting cryptic fungal species in the lichen-forming Rhizoplaca melanophthalma species-complex (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota).

Contrasting Patterns of Climatic Niche Divergence in Trebouxia—A Clade of Lichen-Forming Algae

Corrections and amendments to the 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota

Cryptic diversity and symbiont interactions in rock-posy lichens

DNA barcode identification of lichen-forming fungal species in the Rhizoplaca melanophthalma species-complex (Lecanorales, Lecanoraceae), including five new species

DNA barcoding of brown Parmeliae (Parmeliaceae) species: a molecular approach for accurate specimen identification, emphasizing species in Greenland

Diversification of the newly recognized lichen-forming fungal lineage Montanelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) and its relation to key geological and climatic events

Diversity of Xanthoparmelia (Parmeliaceae) species in Mexican xerophytic scrub vegetation, evidenced by molecular, morphological and chemistry data ⬇️

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

Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

Formally described species woefully underrepresent phylogenetic diversity in the common lichen photobiont genus Trebouxia (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta): An impetus for developing an integrated taxonomy

Fruticose Lichen Communities at the Edge: Distribution and Diversity in a Desert Sky Island on the Colorado Plateau

Fungal specificity and selectivity for algae play a major role in determining lichen partnerships across diverse ecogeographic regions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota).

Genome-scale data resolve ancestral rock-inhabiting lifestyle in Dothideomycetes (Ascomycota)

Genome-scale data reveal the role of hybridization in lichen-forming fungi

Hidden diversity before our eyes: Delimiting and describing cryptic lichen-forming fungal species in camouflage lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota).

How do you solve a problem like Letharia? A new look at cryptic species in lichen-forming fungi using Bayesian clustering and SNPs from multilocus sequence data

Is targeted community DNA metabarcoding suitable for biodiversity inventories of lichen-forming fungi?

Kalbionora palaeotropica, a new genus and species from coastal forests in Southeast Asia and Australia (Malmideaceae, Ascomycota)

Lampenflora in a Show Cave in the Great Basin Is Distinct from Communities on Naturally Lit Rock Surfaces in Nearby Wild Caves

Lichen flora of the eastern Mojave Desert: Blackrock Arizona, Mojave County, Arizona, USA ⬇️

Limitations of Species Delimitation Based on Phylogenetic Analyses: A Case Study in the Hypogymnia hypotrypa Group (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

Local representation of global diversity in a cosmopolitan lichen-forming fungal species complex (Rhizoplaca, Ascomycota)

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

Miocene and Pliocene dominated diversification of the lichen-forming fungal genus Melanohalea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) and Pleistocene population expansions

Miocene divergence, phenotypically cryptic lineages, and contrasting distribution patterns in common lichen-forming fungi (Ascomycota: Parmeliaceae)

Molecular data show that Hypotrachyna sorocheila (Parmeliaceae) is not monophyletic

Multilocus phylogeny of the lichen-forming fungal genus Melanohalea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota): Insights on diversity, distributions, and a comparison of species tree and concatenated topologies ⬇️

Multiple, Distinct Intercontinental Lineages but Isolation of Australian Populations in a Cosmopolitan Lichen-Forming Fungal Taxon, Psora decipiens (Psoraceae, Ascomycota).

Neogene-dominated diversification in neotropical montane lichens: dating divergence events in the lichen-forming fungal genus Oropogon (Parmeliaceae).

Photobiont Diversity in Lichen Symbioses From Extreme Environments

Phylogenetic studies uncover a predominantly African lineage in a widely distributed lichen-forming fungal species

Phylogenetic study and taxonomic revision of the group, including the description of a new species (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

Pleistocene speciation in North American lichenized fungi and the impact of alternative species circumscriptions and rates of molecular evolution on divergence estimates

Polyphyly of the genus Canoparmelia—uncovering incongruences between phenotype-based classification and molecular phylogeny within lichenized Ascomycota (Parmeliaceae)

Providing Scale to a Known Taxonomic Unknown—At Least a 70-Fold Increase in Species Diversity in a Cosmopolitan Nominal Taxon of Lichen-Forming Fungi

Reference-based RADseq resolves robust relationships among closely related species of lichen-forming fungi using metagenomic DNA.

Resolving evolutionary relationships in lichen-forming fungi using diverse phylogenomic datasets and analytical approaches

Shotgun sequencing decades-old lichen specimens to resolve phylogenomic placement of type material ⬇️

Species boundaries in the messy middle-A genome-scale validation of species delimitation in a recently diverged lineage of coastal fog desert lichen fungi

Species delimitation and evolution in morphologically and chemically diverse communities of the lichen‐forming genus Xanthoparmelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) in western North America ⬇️

Species delimitation in taxonomically difficult lichen-forming fungi: an example from morphologically and chemically diverse Xanthoparmelia (Parmeliaceae) in North America

Species in lichen-forming fungi: balancing between conceptual and practical considerations, and between phenotype and phylogenomics ⬇️

Testing the impact of effective population size on speciation rates - a negative correlation or lack thereof in lichenized fungi.

The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota – Approaching one thousand genera

The monotypic genusBulborrhizinabelongs toBulbothrixsensu lato (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

Towards a revised generic classification of lecanoroid lichens (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence

Two New Species and Two New Records of the Lichen-Forming Fungal Genus Peltula (Ascomycota: Peltulaceae) from China

Understanding phenotypical character evolution in parmelioid lichenized fungi (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)

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

Using multi-locus sequence data for addressing species boundaries in commonly accepted lichen-forming fungal species

Using target enrichment sequencing to study the higher-level phylogeny of the largest lichen-forming fungi family: Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota)

Who's getting around? Assessing species diversity and phylogeography in the widely distributed lichen-forming fungal genus Montanelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota).