Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>The mystery of the secretly sexual lichens <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-11-mystery-secretly-sexual-lichens.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-11-mystery-</span><span class="invisible">secretly-sexual-lichens.html</span></a></p><p>Rethinking asexuality: the enigmatic case of functional sexual genes in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Lepraria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lepraria</span></a>. By Meredith Doellman <a href="https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-024-10898-8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/</span><span class="invisible">articles/10.1186/s12864-024-10898-8</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/lichen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lichen</span></a> called Lepraria, long assumed to be asexual, still has the genes that govern sexual reproduction. These <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/lichens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lichens</span></a> contrary to what scientists have thought for decades, may have secret sex lives that no one has been able to observe."</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/LichenSubscribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LichenSubscribe</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fungi</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Algae</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbes</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a></p>