Bernard Goffinet – Bryology (and Lichenology)

Medina R., M.G. Johnson, N. Patel, G. Tocci, D. R. Toren & B. Goffinet. 2022. Vindication of Physcomitrium pygmaeum: an elusive and endangered moss from North America’s Great Basin. The Bryologist 125: 528-540. Abstract reads: Physcomitrium pygmaeum is an ephemeral moss described in 1871 from a single collection from Utah, currently considered conspecific with Physcomitrium […]

He S., J.R. Shevock, N. Patel, O. Lemieux & B. Goffinet. 2022. Rediscovery of Florschuetziella scaberrima (Bryophyta, Orthotrichaceae) a century after its description leads to its transfer to Leratia. Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 45 (1): 188–198. pdf Abstract reads: Florschuetziella scaberrima (Broth.) Vitt, previously known only from the type material collected in 1915 from Yunnan, […]

Dong S., J. Yu, L. Zhang, B. Goffinet & Y. Liu. Phylotranscriptomics of liverworts: revisiting the backbone phylogeny and ancestral gene duplications. Annals of Botany accepted. Abstract reads: Background and Aims — With some 7,300 extant species, liverworts (Marchantiophyta) represent one of the major land plant lineages. The backbone relationships, such as the phylogenetic position of Ptilidiales, and […]

Rozzi R., C. S. Quilodrán, E. Botero-Delgadillo, R.D. Crego, C. Napolitano, O. Barroso, R. MacKenzie, J.C. Torres-Mura, C. Bravo, S. Ippi, V. Quirici, J. Rivero-de-Aguilar, C.G. Suazo, B. Goffinet, B. Kempenaers, E. Poulin & R.A. Vásquez. 2022. Aphrastura subantarctica: the Subantarctic Rayadito, a new bird species on the Southernmost islands of the Americas. Scientific Reports […]

Zach Muscavitch was awarded a grant from the American Philosophical Society for his project entitled “Resolving symbiont specificity for endemic lichens on the Channel Islands of California.” This project aims to collect Niebla lichens from the Channel Islands and characterize their fungal and algal symbionts applying a novel DNA sampling method: Target Capture. Results will […]