Finally, by analyzing metagenomes of the lichen, we obtained 167 genomes, most of which were bacterial. Many of them seem to depend on the substrate, but we also identified lineages present consistently, raising questions of their relationship to the other symbionts 6/7

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the project: @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social@angusb.bsky.social@adamrbentham.bsky.social, Lore Ament, Ioana Onut-Brännström, Hanna Johannesson, Clara Jégousse, and Dan MacLean

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