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Manuela Dal Forno
Researcher at National Museum of Natural History
Publications - 11
Citations - 130
Manuela Dal Forno is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Gene. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 8 publications receiving 87 citations. Previous affiliations of Manuela Dal Forno include George Mason University & Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
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Turbo-taxonomy to assemble a megadiverse lichen genus: seventy new species of Cora (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), honouring David Leslie Hawksworth’s seventieth birthday
Robert Lücking,Manuela Dal Forno,Manuela Dal Forno,Bibiana Moncada,Luis Fernando Coca,Leidy Yasmín Vargas-Mendoza,André Aptroot,Laura Juliana Arias,Betty Besal,Frank Bungartz,Diego Mauricio Cabrera-Amaya,Marcela Eugenia da Silva Cáceres,José Luis Chaves,Sionara Eliasaro,Martha Cecilia Gutiérrez,Jesús E. Hernández Marin,María de los Ángeles Herrera-Campos,María E. Holgado-Rojas,Harald Jonitz,Martin Kukwa,Fabiane Lucheta,Santiago Madriñán,Marcelo Pinto Marcelli,Suzana Maria de Azevedo Martins,Joel A. Mercado-Díaz,Jorge Molina,Eduardo A. Morales,Peter R. Nelson,Freddy Nugra,Francisco Ortega,Telma Paredes,Ayda Lucía Patiño,Rouchi Nadine Peláez-Pulido,Rosa Emilia Pérez Pérez,Gary B. Perlmutter,Eimy Rivas-Plata,Javier Robayo,Camilo Rodríguez,Diego Simijaca,Edier Alberto Soto-Medina,Adriano Afonso Spielmann,Alejandra Suárez-Corredor,Jean-Marc Torres,Carlos Alberto Vargas,Alba Yánez-Ayabaca,Alba Yánez-Ayabaca,Gothamie Weerakoon,Karina Wilk,Marcela Celis Pacheco,Mauricio Diazgranados,Grischa Brokamp,Thomas Borsch,Patrick M. Gillevet,Masoumeh Sikaroodi,James D. Lawrey +54 more
TL;DR: Based on an updated phylogeny using the ITS fungal barcoding locus, Cora is now recognize 189 taxa in a genus that until recently was considered to represent a single species; including this contribution, 92 of these are formally recognized, including five taxa based on historical names or collections that have not been sequenced.
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High levels of endemism among Galapagos basidiolichens.
Manuela Dal Forno,Manuela Dal Forno,Frank Bungartz,Frank Bungartz,Alba Yánez-Ayabaca,Robert Lücking,James D. Lawrey +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the closest relatives of half of the basidiolichens now found in Galapagos are from mainland Ecuador, implying that they reached the islands through the shortest route, with all species arriving on the islandsthrough independent colonization events.
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Extensive photobiont sharing in a rapidly radiating cyanolichen clade.
Manuela Dal Forno,Manuela Dal Forno,James D. Lawrey,Masoumeh Sikaroodi,Patrick M. Gillevet,Eric Schuettpelz,Robert Lücking +6 more
TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis of lichens representing "fungal farmers", in which diverse mycobiont lineages associate with a substantially lower diversity of photobionts by sharing those photobIONts best suited for the lichen symbiosis among multiple and often unrelated myCobionT lineages.
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Cora timucua (Hygrophoraceae), a new and potentially extinct, previously misidentified basidiolichen of Florida inland scrub documented from historical collections
Robert Lücking,Laurel Kaminsky,Gary B. Perlmutter,James D. Lawrey,Manuela Dal Forno,Manuela Dal Forno +5 more
TL;DR: The conservation status of C. timucua is assessed and it is found that it should be classified as critically endangered (CR), in line with the status of another Florida endemic, Cladonia perforata, which was the first federally red-listed lichen in the United States.
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Persistence of Transported Lichen at a Hummingbird Nest Site
TL;DR: The multi-year persistence of a transported thallus of Myelochroa aurulenta (Powdery Axil-bristle Lichen) at a hummingbird nest site is reported, suggesting that hummingbirds may be important dispersal agents for foliose lichens.