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  1. Diversity of fungi attached to birds corresponds to the habitat ecologies of their avian dispersal vectors

    Article • Annals of Botany, May 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  2. Extending the fossil record of Miocene neotropical epiphyte communities

    Article • Fossil Record, February 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  3. Peltigera (Ascomycota) living in open and shady environments depend on different Nostoc photobionts

    Article • Folia Cryptogamica Estonica, November 2023, University of Tartu Press

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  4. Two new species of Leptogium (Collemataceae) with transversely septate ascospores from East Africa

    Article • Folia Cryptogamica Estonica, November 2023, University of Tartu Press

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  5. The Lichen Genus Sticta (Lobariaceae, Peltigerales) in East African Montane Ecosystems

    Article • Journal of Fungi, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  6. Identification of Cyanobacterial Toxins from Lichen Thalli

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  7. Peltigera (Lecanoromycetes) on Mt Kilimanjaro, East Africa

    Article • The Lichenologist, September 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  8. Fossil evidence of lichen grazing from Palaeogene amber

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, July 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  9. Miocene Ethiopian amber: A new source of fossil cryptogams

    Article • Journal of Systematics and Evolution, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  10. Complex Interaction Networks Among Cyanolichens of a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  11. Woodpeckers can act as dispersal vectors for fungi, plants, and microorganisms

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  12. Diversity of Leptogium (Collemataceae, Ascomycota) in East African Montane Ecosystems

    Article • Microorganisms, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  13. Epiphyte Colonisation of Fog Nets in Montane Forests of the Taita Hills, Kenya

    Article • Annales Botanici Fennici, October 2020, Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  14. Fossil Usnea and similar fruticose lichens from Palaeogene amber

    Article • The Lichenologist, July 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  15. Crustose lichens with lichenicolous fungi from Paleogene amber

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  16. Relationships between mycobiont identity, photobiont specificity and ecological preferences in the lichen genus Peltigera (Ascomycota) in Estonia (northeastern Europe)

    Article • Fungal Ecology, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  17. Taitaia, a novel lichenicolous fungus in tropical montane forests in Kenya (East Africa)

    Article • The Lichenologist, March 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  18. A Caribbean epiphyte community preserved in Miocene Dominican amber

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  19. Specialist taxa restricted to threatened habitats contribute significantly to the regional diversity of Peltigera (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota) in Estonia

    Article • Fungal Ecology, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  20. Diversity and ecological adaptations in Palaeogene lichens

    Article • Nature Plants, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  21. Lichen preservation in amber: morphology, ultrastructure, chemofossils, and taphonomic alteration

    Article • July 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  22. Evolution of the tRNALeu (UAA) Intron and Congruence of Genetic Markers in Lichen-Symbiotic Nostoc

    Article • PLOS One, June 2015, PLOS

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  23. Alectorioid Morphologies in Paleogene Lichens: New Evidence and Re-Evaluation of the Fossil Alectoria succini Mägdefrau

    Article • PLOS One, June 2015, PLOS

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  24. The Genetic Basis for O-Acetylation of the Microcystin Toxin in Cyanobacteria

    Article • Chemistry & Biology, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  25. Lichen species identity and diversity of cyanobacterial toxins in symbiosis

    Article • New Phytologist, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  26. Convergent evolution of [D-Leucine1] microcystin-LR in taxonomically disparate cyanobacteria

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  27. Geographic mosaic of symbiont selectivity in a genus of epiphytic cyanolichens

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, August 2012, Wiley

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  28. Cyanobacteria produce a high variety of hepatotoxic peptides in lichen symbiosis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  29. Reconstruction of structural evolution in the trnL intron P6b loop of symbiotic Nostoc (Cyanobacteria)

    Article • Current Genetics, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  30. Genotype variability of Nostoc symbionts associated with three epiphytic Nephroma species in a boreal forest landscape

    Article • The Bryologist, March 2011, American Bryological and Lichenological Society

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen

  31. Microcystin Production in the Tripartite CyanolichenPeltigera leucophlebia

    Article • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, June 2009, Scientific Societies

    Dr Ulla Kaasalainen