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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _Science_ 353, 488–492 (2016) Lichens are not single organisms but an intimate symbiosis of fungi, most often an ascomycete, and a
photosynthetic alga or cyanobacterial species. Very occasionally the symbiosis will include a second photosynthetic partner (photobiont) but only one fungus (mycobiont) per lichen seemed an
inviolable rule. Spribille _et al_. have rewritten this dogma by identifying lichen involving two mycobionts and demonstrating that such trinogamy is very common. This is a preview of
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