通过分析近10年在PNAS,Nature及Science上发表的涉及地衣的文章,并结合相关文献,总结了当前地衣学研究的主要方面及重要进展。对地衣化石、共生进化、系统发育、共生藻、功能遗传学、地衣生殖及生态生理学等领域取得的成果进行了概述,同时展望了中国地衣学研究的发展前景。
The articles on lichens published in PNAS, Nature and Science in the last decade were collected and analyzed. The analytic results combined with review on other important papers showed that the main aspects and significant progress of lichenology appeared in the following fields: lichen fossils, evolution, phylogenetics, photobiont, functional genetics, reproduction, and ecophysiology. The prospect of lichenology in China is also addressed in the present paper.