[1] Yang QX#, Shahidin H#, Xiao LT, Qiu XY, Zeng H, Phurbu D, Wang YY*, Wei XL*. 2025. Catalogue of fungi in China 7. New taxa of lichen-forming fungi. Mycology, 1-33.doi: 10.1080/21501203.2025.2505480
[2] Li BT, Mamuti R, Xiao LT, Qian B, Wang YY*, Wei XL*. 2024. The adaptation of lichen symbiosis to desert saline-alkali stress depends more on their symbiotic algae. Physiologia Plantarum, 176: e14510. doi: 10.1111/ppl.14510
[3] Wang YY#, Zhang YR#, Li R, Qian B, Du X, Qiu XY, Chen MM, Shi GH, Wei XL*, Wu Q*. 2024. Exploration on cold adaptation of Antarctic lichen via detection of positive selection genes. IMA Fungus, 15: 29. doi: 10.1186/s43008-024-00160-x
[4] Wang YY, Li R, Wang DW, Qian B, Bian ZY, Wei JC, Wei XL*, Xu JR*. 2023. Regulation of symbiotic interactions and primitive lichen differentiation by UMP1 MAP kinase in Umbilicaria muhlenbergii. Nature Communications, 14: 6972. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42675-8
[5] Zhang TT, Grube M, Wei XL*. 2023. Host selection tendency of key microbiota in arid desert lichen crusts. iMeta, 2 (4): e138. doi: 10.1002/imt2.138
[6] Yang QX#, Wang YY#, Lücking R, Lumbsch HT, Du ZY, Chen YK, Bai M, Ren D, Wei JC, Li H*, Wang YJ*, Wei XL*. 2023. The Jurassic epiphytic macrolichen and its implication to the interactions with Mesozoic forest ecosystem. iScience, 26: 105770. doi: 10.1016/j.isci. 2022.105770
[7] Zhang TT, Zhang X, Yang QX, Wei XL*. 2022. Hidden species diversity was explored in two genera of catapyrenioid lichens (Verrucariaceae, Ascomycota) from the deserts of China. Journal of Fungi, 8: 729. doi: 10.3390/jof8070729
[8] Fang H, Labandeira CC, Ma YM, Zheng BY, Ren D, Wei XL*, Liu JX*, Wang YJ*. 2020. Lichen mimesis in mid-Mesozoic lacewings. eLife, 9: e59007. doi: 10.7554/eLife.59007
[9] Wang YY,Wei XL, Bian ZY, Wei JC, Xu JR*. 2020. Coregulation of dimorphism and symbiosis by cAMP signaling in the lichenized fungusUmbilicaria muhlenbergii.PNAS, 117(38): 23847-23858. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2005109117
[10] Wei XL, Chen LH, Wang RF. 2021. Flora Lichenum Sinicorum. Vol. 6 Parmeliaceae (III). Beijing: Science Press, pp.203.