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List of works by Jouko Rikkinen

A Caribbean epiphyte community preserved in Miocene Dominican amber

A case study on the re-establishment of the cyanolichen symbiosis: where do the compatible photobionts come from?

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

A molecular approach to cyanobacterial diversity in a rock-pool community involving gelatinous lichens and free-living Nostoc colonies

scientific article published on 2002

A new species of Phyllopsora (Lecanorales, lichen-forming Ascomycota) from Dominican amber, with remarks on the fossil history of lichens

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A new species of resinicolous Chaenothecopsis (Mycocaliciaceae, Ascomycota) from 20 million year old Bitterfeld amber, with remarks on the biology of resinicolous fungi

scientific article published in January 2000

A phylogenetic study of Nephroma (lichen-forming Ascomycota)

scholarly article by Katileena Lohtander et al published July 2002 in Mycological Research

Additions to the moss flora of the Taita Hills and Mount Kasigau, Kenya

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Alectorioid Morphologies in Paleogene Lichens: New Evidence and Re-Evaluation of the Fossil Alectoria succini Mägdefrau

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Amber fossils of sooty moulds

Amber inclusions from New Zealand

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An annotated checklist of the bryophytes of Taita Hills region, Kenya

Beavers promote calicioid diversity in boreal forest landscapes

Calicioid lichens and fungi in amber – Tracing extant lineages back to the Paleogene

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Calicioid lichens from European Tertiary amber

scientific article published in November 2003

Caspary's fungi from Baltic amber: historic specimens and new evidence

Caste-specific nutritional differences define carbon and nitrogen fluxes within symbiotic food webs in African termite mounds

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Chaenotheca olivaceorufa (Caliciales) New to North America

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Chaenothecopsis khayensis, a new resinicolous calicioid fungus on African mahogany

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Chaenothecopsis neocaledonica sp. nov.: The first resinicolous mycocalicioid fungus from an araucarian conifer

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Chaenothecopsis nigripunctata, a remarkable new species of resinicolous Mycocaliciaceae from western North America

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Chaenothecopsis schefflerae (Ascomycota: Mycocaliciales): a widespread fungus on semi-hardened exudates of endemic New Zealand Araliaceae

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Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: Myanmar amber

scientific article published in 2020

Complex Interaction Networks Among Cyanolichens of a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot

scientific article published in 2021

Convergent evolution of [D-Leucine(1)] microcystin-LR in taxonomically disparate cyanobacteria

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Corticolous Myxomycetes and Other Epiphytic Cryptogams on Seven Native Tree Species in Hunan Province, China

scientific article published in 2004

Crustose lichens with lichenicolous fungi from Paleogene amber

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Cyanobacteria produce a high variety of hepatotoxic peptides in lichen symbiosis

scientific article published on 26 March 2012

Cyanolichens

DNA barcoding: a tool for improved taxon identification and detection of species diversity

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Discovery of rare and highly toxic microcystins from lichen-associated cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain IO-102-I

scientific article published on October 2004

Diversity and ecological adaptations in Palaeogene lichens.

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Diversity of Leptogium (Collemataceae, Ascomycota) in East African Montane Ecosystems

scientific article published in 2021

Diversity of fungus-growing termites (Macrotermes ) and their fungal symbionts (Termitomyces ) in the semiarid Tsavo Ecosystem, Kenya

scholarly article by Risto Vesala et al published 3 April 2017 in Biotropica

Diversity of lichen-associated filamentous fungi preserved in European Paleogene amber

Epiphyte Colonisation of Fog Nets in Montane Forests of the Taita Hills, Kenya

scientific article published in 2020

Estimating the Phanerozoic history of the Ascomycota lineages: combining fossil and molecular data.

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Evolution of the tRNALeu (UAA) Intron and Congruence of Genetic Markers in Lichen-Symbiotic Nostoc

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Experimental transplants reveal strong environmental effects on the growth of non-vascular epiphytes in Afromontane forests

Fossil Usnea and similar fruticose lichens from Palaeogene amber

Fossil evidence of lichen grazing from Palaeogene amber

Fossilised Anzia (Lecanorales, lichen-forming Ascomycota) from European Tertiary amber

scientific article published in 2002

Genetic diversity in cyanobacterial symbionts of thalloid bryophytes

scientific article published on 05 March 2008

Genotype variability of Nostoc symbionts associated with three epiphytic Nephroma species in a boreal forest landscape

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Geographic mosaic of symbiont selectivity in a genus of epiphytic cyanolichens

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Habitat preferences, estimated abundance and behavior of tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax sp.) in fragmented montane forests of Taita Hills, Kenya

scientific article published on 15 April 2022

Lejeuneaceae (Marchantiophyta) from a species-rich taphocoenosis in Miocene Mexican amber, with a review of liverworts fossilised in amber

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Lichen species identity and diversity of cyanobacterial toxins in symbiosis.

scientific article published on 6 March 2013

Lichen-associated fungi from Paleogene amber.

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Marine microorganisms as amber inclusions: insights from coastal forests of New Caledonia

article by Alexander R. Schmidt et al published 29 August 2018 in Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe

Microbial Communities of Lichens and Their Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Potentially Encoding Natural Products

Microcystin Production in the Tripartite Cyanolichen Peltigera leucophlebia

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Molecular studies on cyanobacterial diversity in lichen symbioses

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Morphological Convergence in Forest Microfungi Provides a Proxy for Paleogene Forest Structure

Morphological stasis in the first myxomycete from the Mesozoic, and the likely role of cryptobiosis

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

New resinicolous Chaenothecopsis species from China.

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New resinicolous ascomycetes from beaver scars in western North America

scientific article published on 2003

Nomenclatural corrections in calicioid fungi

scientific article published in 2012

Parasitaxus parasitized: novel infestation of Parasitaxus usta (Podocarpaceae)

Phylogeny of chitinases and its implications for estimating horizontal gene transfer from chitinase-transgenic silver birch (Betula pendula).

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Production and preservation of resins - past and present

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Range Extensions of Selected Pin-Lichens and Allied Fungi in the Pacific Northwest

scientific article published in 1999

Reconstruction of structural evolution in the trnL intron P6b loop of symbiotic Nostoc (Cyanobacteria).

scientific article published on 31 December 2011

Relationships between mycobiont identity, photobiont specificity and ecological preferences in the lichen genus Peltigera (Ascomycota) in Estonia (northeastern Europe)

scientific article published in 2019

Repeat-type distribution in trnL intron does not correspond with species phylogeny: comparison of the genetic markers 16S rRNA and trnL intron in heterocystous cyanobacteria.

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Resin exudation and resinicolous communities on Araucaria humboldtensis in New Caledonia

Resinogalea humboldtensis gen. et sp. nov., a New Resinicolous Fungus from New Caledonia, Placed in Bruceomycetaceaefam. nova(Ascomycota)

scientific article published in 2016

Seasonal and diel variations in the acoustic communication of tree hyraxes in Taita Hills, Kenya

scientific article published in 2023

Selaginella in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar

scientific article published in 2022

Selaginella was hyperdiverse already in the Cretaceous

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Sensitivity of Tropical Pendant Bryophytes: Results from a Translocation Experiment Along an Elevation Gradient

scientific article published in 2020

Sooty moulds from European tertiary amber, with notes on the systematic position of Rosaria ('Cyanobacteria').

scientific article published in February 2003

Specialist taxa restricted to threatened habitats contribute significantly to the regional diversity of Peltigera (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota) in Estonia

scholarly article by Inga Jüriado et al published December 2017 in Fungal Ecology

Species identity and behavior of cave-dwelling tree hyraxes of the Kenyan coast

scientific article published in 2023

Stenocybe fragmenta, a New Species of Mycocaliciaceae with Fragmenting Spores

scientific article published in November 1998

Stuck in time – a new Chaenothecopsis species with proliferating ascomata from Cunninghamia resin and its fossil ancestors in European amber

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Symbiotic Cyanobacteria in Lichens

Taita Mountain dwarf galago is extant in the Taita Hills of Kenya

Taitaia, a novel lichenicolous fungus in tropical montane forests in Kenya (East Africa)

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Termite mound architecture regulates nest temperature and correlates with species identities of symbiotic fungi

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

The Lichen Genus Sticta (Lobariaceae, Peltigerales) in East African Montane Ecosystems

The anamorphic genus Monotosporella (Ascomycota) from Eocene amber and from modern Agathis resin.

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The enigmatic hyphomycete Torula sensu Caspary revisited

The genetic basis for O-acetylation of the microcystin toxin in cyanobacteria.

scientific article published in July 2013

Three new species of Krogia (Ramalinaceae, lichenised Ascomycota) from the Paleotropics

scientific article published in 2018

Three resinicolous North American species of Mycocaliciales in Europe with a re-evaluation of Chaenothecopsis oregana Rikkinen

scientific article published in 2011

Two New Species of Resinicolous Chaenothecopsis (Mycocaliciaceae) from Western North America

scientific article published in 1999

Two new species of Caliciopsis (Coryneliaceae) from Hunan Province, China

scientific article published in 2000

Uncovering the natural variability of araucariacean exudates from ex situ and in situ tree populations in New Caledonia using FTIR spectroscopy

Vocalization Analyses of Nocturnal Arboreal Mammals of the Taita Hills, Kenya

What's behind the Pretty Colours: A Study on the Photobiology of Lichens

scientific article published in 1996

Woodpeckers can act as dispersal vectors for fungi, plants, and microorganisms

scientific article published on 13 May 2021

Yeast-like fungi in Dominican amber

scientific article published in 2002

You eat what you find - Local patterns in vegetation structure control diets of African fungus-growing termites

scientific article published in 2022

 (Mycocaliciales, Ascomycota) from exudates of endemic New Zealand Podocarpaceae

scientific article published in 2023