Publications and communications of Nicolas Magain

Vansteenkiste, A., Beckers, A., Denayer, D., Paquet, J.-Y., & Magain, N. (18 September 2023). Studying the Red Kite mortality by collision with wind turbines in Belgium [Poster presentation]. CWW 2023 - Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts, Šibenik, Croatia.

Miadlikowska, J., Magain, N., Medeiros, I. D., Pardo-De la Hoz, C. J., Carbone, I., LaGreca, S., Barlow, T., Myllys, L., Schmull, M., & Lutzoni, F. (September 2023). Towards a nomenclatural clarification of the <i>Peltigera ponojensis/monticola</i> clade including metagenomic sequencing of type material and the introduction of <i>P. globulata</i> Miadl. & Magain sp. nov. Lichenologist, 55 (5), 315-324. doi:10.1017/s0024282923000373

Yánez-Ayabaca, A., Benítez, Á., Molina, R. B., Naranjo, D., Etayo, J., Prieto, M., Cevallos, G., Caicedo, E., Scharnagl, K., McNerlin, B., Swanson, S., Aragón, G., Fernández-Prado, N., Martínez, I., Burgaz, A. R., González, Y., Déleg, J., Vega, M., van den Boom, P., ... Bungartz, F. (September 2023). Towards a dynamic checklist of lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of Ecuador – using the <i>Consortium of Lichen Herbaria</i> to manage fungal biodiversity in a megadiverse country. Lichenologist, 55 (5), 203-222. doi:10.1017/s0024282923000476

Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Goffinet, B., Goward, T., Pardo de la Hoz, C. J., Juriado, I., Simon, A., Mercado-Diaz, J., Barlow, T., Moncada, B., Lücking, R., Spielmann, A., Canez, L., Wang, L. S., Nelson, P., Wheeler, T., Lutzoni, F., & Sérusiaux, E. (2023). High species richness in the lichen genus Peltigera (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes): 34 species in the dolichorhizoid and scabrosoid clades of sect. Polydactylon, including 24 new to science. Persoonia. doi:10.3767/persoonia.2023.51.01

Pardo-De la Hoz, C. J., Magain, N., Piatkowski, B., Cornet, L., Dal Forno, M., Carbone, I., Miadlikowska, J., & Lutzoni, F. (2023). Ancient Rapid Radiation Explains Most Conflicts Among Gene Trees and Well-supported Phylogenomic Trees of Nostocalean Cyanobacteria. Systematic Biology. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syad008

Geboes, A.-L., & Magain, N. (05 April 2022). Corn bunting’s (Emberiza calandra) local dialect and song-sharing patterns in intensive arable landscapes [Poster presentation]. Bird Numbers 2022: “Beyond the Atlas: challenges and opportunities”, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Pardo‐De la Hoz, C. J., Medeiros, I. D., Gibert, J. P., Chagnon, P. L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., & Lutzoni, F. (February 2022). Phylogenetic structure of specialization: A new approach that integrates partner availability and phylogenetic diversity to quantify biotic specialization in ecological networks. Ecology and Evolution, 12 (3). doi:10.1002/ece3.8649

Simon, A., Goffinet, B., Wang, L. S., Spribille, T., Goward, T., Pystina, T., Semenova, N., Stepanov, N. V., Moncada, B., Lücking, R., Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. (2022). Global phylogeny and taxonomic reassessment of the lichen genus Dendriscosticta (Ascomycota: Peltigerales). Taxon. doi:10.1002/tax.12649

Cannon, P., Magain, N., Sérusiaux, E., Yahr, R., Coppins, B., Sanderson, N., & Simkin, J. (2021). Peltigerales: Peltigeraceae including the genera Crocodia, Lobaria, Lobarina, Nephroma, Peltigera, Pseudocyphellaria, Ricasolia, Solorina and Sticta. In P. Cannon, A. Aptroot, B. Coppins, A. Orange, N. Sanderson, J. Simkin, ... R. Yahr, Revisions of British and Irish Lichens. British Lichen Society.

Cornet, L., D'Hooge, E., Magain, N., Stubbe, D., Packeu, A., Baurain, D.* , & Becker, P.*. (2021). The taxonomy of the Trichophyton rubrum complex: a phylogenomic approach. Microbial Genomics. doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000707

Sérusiaux, E., Van den Boom, P., & Magain, N. (November 2021). Ramalina arsenii, an additional new species in the R. pollinaria group in Western Europe. Lichenologist, 53 (6), 433-439. doi:10.1017/S0024282921000372

Ponsero, A. J., Hurwitz, B. L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Lutzoni, F., & U'Ren, J. (October 2021). Cyanolichen microbiome contains novel viruses that encode genes to promote microbial metabolism. ISME Communications, 1, 56. doi:10.1038/s43705-021-00060-w

Stone, D. F., McCune, B., Pardo-De La Hoz, C. J., Magain, N., & Miadlikowska, J. (March 2021). Sinuicella denisonii, a new genus and species in the Peltigeraceae from western North America. Lichenologist, 53 (2), 185-192. doi:10.1017/S0024282920000584

Cornet, L., Magain, N., Baurain, D., & Lutzoni, F. (2021). Exploring syntenic conservation across genomes for phylogenetic studies of organisms subjected to horizontal gene transfers: a case study with Cyanobacteria and cyanolichens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107100

Collart, F.* , Wang, J.* , Patiño, J.* , Hagborg, A., Söderström, L., Goffinet, B., Magain, N., Hardy, O. J.* , & Vanderpoorten, A.*. (2021). Macroclimatic structuring of spatial phylogenetic turnover in liverworts. Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.05659

Moncada, B., Mercado-Diaz, J. A., Magain, N., Hodkinson, B. P., Smith, C. W., Bungartz, F., Perez-Perez, R.-E., Gumboski, E., Sérusiaux, E., Lumbsch, H. T., & Lücking, R. (2021). Phylogenetic diversity of two geographically overlapping lichens: isolation by distance, environment, or fragmentation? Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.14033

Spjut, R., Simon, A., Guissard, M., Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. (11 September 2020). The fruticose genera in the Ramalinaceae (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes): their diversity and evolutionary history. MycoKeys, 73, 1-68. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.73.47287

Magain, N., Goffinet, B., Simon, A., Seelan Sathiya Seelan, J., Medeiros, I. D., Lutzoni, F., & Miadlikowska, J. (2020). Peltigera serusiauxii (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new species from Papua New Guinea and Malaysia. Plant and Fungal Systematics. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0009

Masson, D., & Magain, N. (02 June 2020). Ascospore size declines with elevation in two tropical parmelioid lichens. Plant and Fungal Systematics, 65 (1), 227–237. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0018

Miadlikowska, J., Magain, N., Buck, W. R., Vargas Castillo, R., Barlow, G. T., Pardo-De la Hoz, C. J., LaGreca, S., & Lutzoni, F. (02 June 2020). Peltigera hydrophila (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new semi-aquatic cyanolichen species from Chile. Plant and Fungal Systematics, 65 (1), 210–218. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0016

Van den Boom, P., & Magain, N. (2020). Three new lichen species from Macaronesia belonging in Ramalinaceae, with the description of a new genus. Plant and Fungal Systematics. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0011

Lindgren, H., Moncada, B., Lucking, R., Magain, N., Simon, A., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., Nelsen, M. P., Mercado-Diaz, J. P., Widhelm, T. J., & Lumbsch, H. T. (2020). Cophylogenetic patterns in algal symbionts correlate with repeated symbiont switches during diversification and geographic expansion of lichen-forming fungi in the genus Sticta (Ascomycota: Peltigeraceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106860

Magain, N., Spribille, T., DiMeglio, J., Nelson, P. R., Miadlikowska, J., & Sérusiaux, E. (January 2020). Phylogenetic evidence for an expanded circumscription of Gabura (Arctomiaceae). Lichenologist, 52 (1), 3-15. doi:10.1017/S0024282919000471

Magain, N. (11 December 2019). Understanding the lichen symbiosis through metagenomics [Paper presentation]. Department of Biosciences seminar, Oslo, Norway.

Magain, N. (29 November 2019). Building on a solid foundation: a case study of how careful systematics can enhance ecology and genomics [Paper presentation]. 5th Annual Meeting on Plant Ecology and Evolution (AMPEE5), Meise, Belgium.

Darnajoux, R., Magain, N., Renaudin, M., Lutzoni, F., Bellenger, J.-P., & Zhang, X. (2019). Molybdenum threshold for ecosystem scale alternative vanadium nitrogenase activity in boreal forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi:10.1073/pnas.1913314116

Magain, N. (02 August 2019). Understanding the lichen symbiosis: Insights from macro-evolutionary, ecological and metagenomics perspectives [Paper presentation]. Hokkaido University Graduate School of Global Food Resources seminar, Sapporo, Japan.

Carbone, I., White, J. B., Miadlikowska, J., Arnold, A. E., Miller, M. A., Magain, N., U'Ren, J., & Lutzoni, F. (July 2019). T-BAS Version 2.1: Tree-Based Alignment Selector Toolkit for Evolutionary Placement of DNA Sequences and Viewing Alignments and Specimen Metadata on Curated and Custom Trees. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8 (29), 00328-19. doi:10.1128/MRA.00328-19

Chagnon, P.-L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., & Lutzoni, F. (2019). Species diversification and phylogenetically constrained symbiont switching generated high modularity in the lichen genus Peltigera. Journal of Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13207

Magain, N. (07 February 2019). Understanding the lichen symbiosis: Insights from macro-evolutionary, ecological and metagenomics perspectives [Paper presentation]. InBios Day, Liege, Belgium.

Miadlikowska, J., Magain, N., Pardo de la Hoz, C., Niu, D., Goward, T., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (December 2018). Species in section Peltidea (aphthosa group) of the genus Peltigera remain cryptic after molecular phylogenetic revision. Plant and Fungal Systematics, 63 (2), 45–64. doi:10.2478/pfs-2018-0007

Pardo De la Hoz, C., Magain, N., Lutzoni, F., Goward, T., Restrepo, S., & Miadlikowska, J. (November 2018). Contrasting Symbiotic Patterns in Two Closely Related Lineages of Trimembered Lichens of the Genus Peltigera. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 2770. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02770

Magain, N., Truong, C., Goward, T., Niu, D., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., Vitikainen, O., Lutzoni, F., & Miadlikowska, J. (October 2018). Species delimitation at a global scale reveals high species richness with complex biogeography and patterns of symbiont association in Peltigera section Peltigera (lichenized Ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes). Taxon, 67 (5), 836-870. doi:10.12705/675.3

Widhelm, T. J., Bertolettiq, F. R., Asztalos, M. J., Mercado-Diaz, J. A., Huang, J.-P., Moncada, B., Lücking, R., Magain, N., Sérusiaux, E., Crouch, N., Mason-Gamer, R., & Lumbsch, H. T. (September 2018). Oligocene origin and drivers of diversification in the genus Sticta (Lobariaceae, Ascomycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 126, 58-73. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.006

Lu, J., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Coyle, J. R., Truong, C., & Lutzoni, F. (12 July 2018). Bioclimatic factors at an intrabiome scale are more limiting than cyanobiont availability for the lichen‐forming genus Peltigera. American Journal of Botany, 105 (7), 1198-1211. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1119

Magain, N. (July 2018). Worldwide eco-evolutionary dynamics of the Peltigera-Nostoc symbiosis [Poster presentation]. IMC - International Mycological Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Chagnon, P.-L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., & Lutzoni, F. (14 May 2018). Strong specificity and network modularity at a very fine phylogenetic scale in the lichen genus Peltigera. Oecologia, 187 (3), 767-782. doi:10.1007/s00442-018-4159-6

McCune, B., Arup, U., Breuss, O., DiMeglio, E., DiMeglio, J., Esslinger, T., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Miller, A., Muggia, L., Nelson, P. R., Rosentreter, R., Schultz, M., Sheard, J., Tonsberg, T., & Walton, J. (2018). Biodiversity and Ecology of Lichens of Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks and Preserves, Alaska. Mycosphere: Journal of Fungal Biology, 9 (4), 859 – 930. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/9/4/10

Simon, A., Goffinet, B., Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. (2018). High diversity, high insular endemism and recent origin in the lichen genus Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota, Peltigerales) in Madagascar and the Mascarenes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 22, 15–28. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.01.012

Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Mueller, O., Gajdeczka, M., Truong, C., Salamov, A. A., Dubchak, I., Grigoriev, I. V., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (December 2017). Conserved genomic collinearity as a source of broadly applicable, fast evolving, markers to resolve species complexes: A case study using the lichen-forming genus Peltigera section Polydactylon. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 117 (12), 10-29. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.08.013

Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Lu, J., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (May 2017). Worldwide spatio-temporal patterns of symbiotic specificity between Peltigera and its Nostoc partners [Paper presentation]. Future Arctic Workshop, Forêt Montmorency, Canada.

Magain, N., Miadlikoswka, J., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (2017). Macroevolution of Specificity in Cyanolichens of the Genus Peltigera Section Polydactylon (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota). Systematic Biology, 66 (1), 74-99. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw065

Magain, N. (August 2016). Conserved genomic collinearity within and among Pezizomycotina classes to develop broadly applicable and fast evolving markers to resolve species complexes: a case study using the lichen-forming genus Peltigera [Poster presentation]. IAL 8 - International Association for Lichenology Conference, Helsinki, Finland.

Magain, N., Lutzoni, F., Sérusiaux, E., Truong, C., Pardo De la Hoz, C., Niu, D., Goward, T., Zhurbenko, M., Goffinet, B., Vitikainen, O., & Miadlikowska, J. (August 2016). The importance of spatio-temporal photobiont patterns of association for comprehensive phylogenetic revisions and macroevolutionary studies of lichens: a worldwide case study of the genus Peltigera [Paper presentation]. IAL8 - International Association of Lichenology Symposium, Helsinki, Finland.

Simon, A., Magain, N., Goffinet, B., & Sérusiaux, E. (05 February 2016). Recent and rapid radiation of the lichen genus Sticta in the Western Indian Ocean islands [Poster presentation]. Third Annual Meeting on Plant Ecology and Evolution (AMPEE3), Gent, Belgium.

Magain, N., Sérusiaux, E., Zhurbenko, M. P., Lutzoni, F., & Miadlikowska, J. (2016). Disentangling the Peltigera polydactylon Species Complex by Recognizing Two New Taxa, P. polydactylon subsp. udeghe and P. seneca. Herzogia, 29 (2), 514-528.

Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (July 2015). Evolution of specificity in the lichen-forming genus Peltigera and its cyanobacterial partner: consequences on speciation rate and geographical range [Paper presentation]. Botany 2015, Edmonton, Canada.

Miadlikowska, J., Magain, N., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (March 2015). Evolution of specificity in the lichen-forming genus Peltigera and its cyanobacterial partner: consequences on speciation rate and geographical range [Paper presentation]. 28th Fungal Genetics Conference, Pacific Grove, United States.

Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. (2015). The lichen genus Kroswia is a synonym of Fuscopannaria (Pannariaceae). Lichenologist, 47, 35-42. doi:10.1017/S0024282914000553

Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. (2015). Dismantling the treasured flagship lichen Sticta fuliginosa (Peltigerales) into four species in Western Europe. Mycological Progress, 14:97. doi:10.1007/s11557-015-1109-0

Magain, N. (2014). Integrating photobiont phylogenetic and geographical data in macroevolutionary studies of lichens: case studies in Peltigerales [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/173647

Magain, N. (August 2014). Two are better than one: Delimiting cryptic species within the lichen-forming genus Peltigera section Polydactylon (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes) using DNA sequences from the fungal and cyanobacterial partners [Poster presentation]. IMC 10 (International Mycological Conference), Bangkok, Thailand.

Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (August 2014). Evolution of specificity within the lichen-forming genus Peltigera and its cyanobacterial partner: Consequences on speciation rate and geographical range [Paper presentation]. IMC10: The 10th International Mycological Congress, Bangkok, Thailand.

Miadlikowska, J., Richardson, D., Magain, N., Ball, B., Anderson, F., Cameron, R., Lendemer, J., Truong, C., & Lutzoni, F. (2014). Phylogenetic placement, species delimitation, and cyanobiont identity of endangered aquatic Peltigera species (lichen-forming Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes). American Journal of Botany. doi:10.3732/ajb.1400267

Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. (February 2014). Do Photobiont Switch and Cephalodia Emancipation Act as Evolutionary Drivers in the Lichen Symbiosis? A Case Study in the Pannariaceae (Peltigerales). PLoS ONE, 9 (2), 89876. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089876

Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. (January 2014). Evolution of specificity in fungi-cyanobacteria symbioses: a case study in Peltigera section Polydactylon [Paper presentation]. British Lichen Society International Symposium, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Magain, N. (June 2013). Photobiont switches and cephalodia emancipation as evolutionary drivers in the lichen symbiosis [Poster presentation]. Evolution 2013, Snowbird, UT, United States.

Magain, N. (June 2013). Peltigera Revsys Project: phylogeny of the section Polydactylon and specificity of the symbiosis [Paper presentation]. Peltigera Workshop, Genova, Italy.

Magain, N., Lutzoni, F., Rivas Plata, E., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Miadlikowska, J. (June 2013). Evolution of specificity in fungi-cyanobacteria lichen symbioses [Paper presentation]. Evolution 2013, Snowbird, UT, United States.

Sérusiaux, E., van den Boom, P. P. G., Brand, M. A., Coppins, B. J., & Magain, N. (September 2012). Lecania falcata, a new species from Spain, the Canary Islands and the Azores, close to Lecania chlorotiza. Lichenologist, 44 (05), 577-590. doi:10.1017/S0024282912000308

Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. (July 2012). A further new species in the lichen genus Arctomia: A. borbonica from Reunion (Mascarene archipelago). MycoKeys, 4, 9-21. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.4.2809

Magain, N. (2012). Multilocus-based phylogeny and species recognition within the cosmopolitan Peltigera neopolydactyla-dolichorhiza complex [Poster presentation]. AMPEE1 (1st Annual meeting on Plant Ecology and Evolution), Meise, Belgium.

Magain, N., Goffinet, B., & Sérusiaux, E. (2012). Further photomorphs in the lichen family Lobariaceae from Reunion (Mascarene archipelago) with notes on the phylogeny of Dendriscocaulon cyanomorphs. Bryologist, 115 (2), 243-254. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-115.2.243

Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Lutzoni, F., Goffinet, B., & Sérusiaux, E. (January 2012). Multilocus-based phylogeny and species recognition within the cosmopolitan Peltigera neopolydactyla-dolichorhiza complex [Poster presentation]. The 7th IAL Symposium - Lichens: frome genome to ecosystems in a changing world, Bangkok, Thailand.

van den Boom, P. P. G., Brand, M., Ertz, D., Kalb, K., Magain, N., Masson, D., Schiefelbein, U., Sipman, H. J. M., & Sérusiaux, E. (2011). Discovering the lichen diversity of a remote tropical island: working list of species collected on Reunion (Mascarene archipelago, Indian Ocean). Herzogia, 24 (2), 325-349.

Magain, N. (November 2010). Microsatellite primers in the Peltigera dolichorhiza complex [Paper presentation]. Young Botanist Day, Meise, Belgium.

Magain, N. (2010). Taxonomie, phylogénie et écogéographie des Peltigerales de La Réunion (Océan Indien) [Master’s dissertation, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/128468

Magain, N., Forrest, L. L., Sérusiaux, E., & Goffinet, B. (2010). Microsatellite primers in the Peltigera dolichorhiza complex (lichenized ascomycete, Peltigerales. American Journal of Botany, 97, 102-104. doi:10.3732/ajb.1000283