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I'm Karen Hopkins. Likans are really cool, successful organisms that are composed of at least two symbiotic partners,

a fungal partner that provides structure and protection and a photosynthetic partner that likely provides energy in the form of sugar.

Chloe Pagoda, a graduate researcher at the University of Colorado,

she led research that found that this partnership extends to the genetic level.

The fungal partner in many lichen jettison a gene that's critical for energy production,

making them completely dependent on their algal associates.

Although scientists have long appreciated that general division of labor,

what's been less clear is whether the relationship was entirely obligatory. In other words,

are the cohorts changed by their evolutionary association in such a way that they can no longer

make it alone? To find out, the team sequenced the genomes of 22 lichen species collected in the southern

Appalachian mountains.

And they concentrated on the participants' mitochondria, which contained genomes of their own.

Because there are so many copies of these genomes in each cell, and because they are

so conserved across all domains of life, the mitochondrial genomes were the focus of our study.

Kyle Keepers, also at the University of Colorado, what the researchers found is that a key

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