Nicolas Magain
About me
Nicolas Magain is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution, and part of the InBioS research center. He is one of the two leaders of the Evolution and Conservation Biology unit. He is also the Curator of the Herbarium. His research interests range from lichens phylogenetics and metagenomics to conservation biology.
Publications
Ancient Rapid Radiation Explains Most Conflicts Among Gene Trees and Wellsupported Phylogenomic Trees of Nostocalean Cyanobacteria
2023. C. J. Pardo-De la Hoz, N. Magain, B. Piatkowski, L. Cornet, M. Dal Forno, I. Carbone, J. Miadlikowska, F. Lutzoni Systematic BiologyJournal Website
Towards a nomenclatural clarification of the Peltigera ponojensis/monticola clade including metagenomic sequencing of type material and the introduction of P. globulata Miadl. & Magain sp. nov.
2023. Jolanta Miadlikowska, Nicolas Magain, Ian D. Medeiros Carlos J. Pardo-De la Hoz, Ignazio Carbone, Scott LaGreca, Thomas Barlow, Leena Myllys, Michaela Schmull and François Lutzoni The Lichenologist 55(5):315-324ORBI Journal Website
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.
2023. Magain, N.; Miadlikowska, J.; Goffinet, B.; Goward, T.; Pardo-De la Hoz, C.J.; Jüriado, I.; Simon, A.; Mercado-Díaz, J.A.; Barlow, T.; Moncada, B.; Lücking, R.; Spielmann, A.; Canez, L.; Wang, L.S.; Nelson, P.; Wheeler, T.; Lutzoni, F.; Sérusiaux, E. PersooniaORBI Journal Website
Towards a dynamic checklist of lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of Ecuador – using the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria to manage fungal biodiversity in a megadiverse country.
2023. Alba Yánez-Ayabaca, Ángel Benítez, Rosa Batallas Molina, Domenica Naranjo, Javier Etayo, María Prieto, Gabriela Cevallos, Erika Caicedo, Klara Scharnagl, Britton McNerlin, Santiago Swanson, Gregorio Aragón, Noelia Fernández-Prado, Isabel Martínez, Ana Rosa Burgaz, Yadira González, Jorge Déleg, Marlon Vega, Pieter van den Boom, Nicolas Magain, Fredy Nugra, Tania Oña, Patricia Jaramillo Díaz, Justine Villalba-Alemán, Bibiana Moncada, Jesús Hernández, Edward Erik Gilbert, Frank Bungartz The Lichenologist 55(5):203-222ORBI Journal Website
Phylogenetic structure of specialization: A new approach that integrates partner availability and phylogenetic diversity to quantify biotic specialization in ecological networks
2022. Pardo-De la Hoz C.J.,Medeiros I.D.,Gibert J.P.,Chagnon P.-L., Magain N., Miadlikowska J., Lutzoni F. Ecology and evolutionORBI Journal Website
Peltigerales: Peltigeraceae including the genera Crocodia, Lobaria, Lobarina, Nephroma, Peltigera, Pseudocyphellaria, Ricasolia, Solorina and Sticta
2021. P. Cannon, N. Magain, E. Sérusiaux, R. Yahr, B. Coppins, N. Sanderson, J. Simkin Revisions of British and Irish LichensJournal Website
Sinuicella denisonii, a new genus and species in the Peltigeraceae from western North America
2021. Stone, D. F., McCune, B., Pardo-De la Hoz, C. J., Magain, N., & Miadlikowska, J. The Lichenologist, 53(2), 185-192.ORBI Journal Website
The taxonomy of the Trichophyton rubrum complex: a phylogenomic approach
2021. Cornet, L., D'hooge, E., Magain, N., Stubbe, D., Packeu, A., Baurain, D., & Becker, P Microbial Genomics, 7(11), 000707.ORBI Journal Website
Exploring syntenic conservation across genomes for phylogenetic studies of organisms subjected to horizontal gene transfers: a case study with Cyanobacteria and cyanolichens
2021. Cornet, L., Magain, N., Baurain, D., & Lutzoni, F. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 107100.ORBI Journal Website
Macroclimatic structuring of spatial phylogenetic turnover in liverworts.
2021. Collart, F., Wang, J., Patino, J., Hagborg, A., Söderström, L., Goffinet, B., Magain, N., Hardy, O.J. & Vanderpoorten, A Ecography, 44(10), 1474-1485.ORBI Journal Website
Global phylogeny and taxonomic reassessment of the lichen genus Dendriscosticta (Ascomycota: Peltigerales)
2021. 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. TaxonJournal Website
Ramalina arsenii, an additional new species in the R. pollinaria group in Western Europeh
2021. Sérusiaux, E., Van den Boom, P., and Magain, N., Lichenologist, 53(6), 33-439.Journal Website
Cyanolichen microbiome contains novel viruses that encode genes to promote microbial metabolism
2021. Ponsero, A. J., Hurwitz, B. L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Lutzoni, F., & U'Ren, J. M. ISME COMMUN. 1, 56.ORBI Journal Website
Phylogenetic diversity of two geographically overlapping lichens: isolation by distance, environment, or fragmentation?
2021. Moncada, B., Mercado‐Díaz, J.A., Magain, N., Hodkinson, B.P., Smith, C.W., Bungartz, F., Pérez‐Pérez, R.E., Gumboski, E., Sérusiaux, E., Lumbsch, H.T. & Lücking, R. Journal of Biogeography, 48(3), 676-689.ORBI Journal Website
Peltigera serusiauxii (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new species from Papua New Guinea and Malaysia.
2020. Magain, N., Goffinet, B., Simon, A., Seelan Sathiya Seelan, J., Medeiros, I.D., Lutzoni, F. and Miadlikowska, J. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(1)ORBI Journal Website
Phylogenetic evidence for an expanded circumscription of Gabura (Arctomiaceae).
2020. Magain, N., Spribille, T., DiMeglio, J., Nelson, P. R., Miadlikowska, J., & Sérusiaux, E. The Lichenologist 52(1):3-15ORBI Journal Website
Ascospore size declines with elevation in two tropical parmelioid lichens.
2020. Masson, D. and Magain, N. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(1)ORBI Journal Website
The fruticose genera in the Ramalinaceae (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes): their diversity and evolutionary history
2020. Spjut R., Simon A., Guissard M., Magain N. & Sérusiaux E. Mycokeys 73: 1-68ORBI Journal Website
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)
2020. Lindgren, H., Moncada, B., Lücking, R., Magain, N., Simon, A., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., Nelsen, M.P., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Widhelm, T.J. and Lumbsch, H.T. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 150 (2020): 106860.ORBI Journal Website
Three new lichen species from Macaronesia belonging in Ramalinaceae, with the description of a new genus.
2020. Van den Boom, P.P.G. and Magain, N. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(1)ORBI Journal Website
Peltigera hydrophila (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new semi-aquatic cyanolichen species from Chile.
2020. Miadlikowska, J., Magain, N., Buck, W.R., Vargas Castillo, R., Barlow, G.T., LaGreca, S. and Lutzoni, F. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(1)ORBI Journal Website
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
2019. Carbone, I., White, J. B., Miadlikowska, J., Arnold, A. E., Miller, M. A., Magain, N., ... & Lutzoni, F. Microbiology resource announcements, 8(29), e00328-19.ORBI Journal Website
Species diversification and phylogenetically constrained symbiont switching generated high modularity in the lichen genus Peltigera
2019. Chagnon, P. L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., & Lutzoni, F. Journal of Ecology, 107(4), 1645-1661.ORBI Journal Website
Molybdenum threshold for ecosystem scale alternative vanadium nitrogenase activity in boreal forests
2019. Darnajoux, R., Magain, N., Renaudin, M., Lutzoni, F., Bellenger, J. P., & Zhang, X. PNAS 116 (49) 24682-24688ORBI Journal Website
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).
2018. Magain, N., Truong, C., Goward, T., Niu, D., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., Lutzoni, F. & Miadlikowska, J. Taxon, 67(5), 836-870.ORBI Journal Website SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
Strong specificity and network modularity at a very fine phylogenetic scale in the lichen genus Peltigera.
2018. Chagnon, P. L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., & Lutzoni, F. Oecologia, 187(3), 767-782.ORBI Journal Website
Biodiversity and ecology of lichens of Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks and Preserves, Alaska.
2018. McCune, B., Arup, U., Breuss, O., DiMeglio, E., DiMeglio, J., Esslinger, T.L., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Miller, A.E., Muggia, L. and Nelson, P.R. et al. Mycosphere; Journal of Fungal Biology, 9(4), 859-930.ORBI Journal Website
Species in section Peltidea (aphthosa group) of the genus Peltigera remain cryptic after molecular phylogenetic revision
2018. Miadlikowska, J., Magain, N., Pardo de la Hoz, C., Niu, D., Goward, T., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. Plant and Fungal Systematics, 63(2), 45-64.ORBI Journal Website
Bioclimatic factors at an intrabiome scale are more limiting than cyanobiont availability for the lichen‐forming genus Peltigera.
2018. Lu, J., Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Coyle, J. R., Truong, C., & Lutzoni, F. American journal of botany, 105(7), 1198-1211.ORBI Journal Website
Contrasting Symbiotic Patterns in Two Closely Related Lineages of Trimembered Lichens of the Genus Peltigera
2018. Pardo-De la Hoz, C.J., Magain, N., Lutzoni, F., Goward, T., Restrepo, S., & Miadlikowska, J. Frontiers in microbiology, 9, 2770.ORBI Journal Website
High diversity, high insular endemism and recent origin in the lichen genus Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota, Peltigerales) in Madagascar and the Mascarenes.
2018. Simon, A., Magain, N., Goffinet, B. & Sérusiaux, E. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 122, 15-28.ORBI Journal Website
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.
2017. Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Mueller, O., Gajdeczka, M., Truong, C., Salamov, A. A., ... & Lutzoni, F. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 117, 10-29.ORBI Journal Website SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
Macroevolution of Specificity in Cyanolichens of the Genus Peltigera Section Polydactylon (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota)
2017. Magain, N., Miadlikowska, J., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., & Lutzoni, F. Systematic biology 66(1):74-99ORBI Journal Website SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
Disentangling the Peltigera polydactylon species complex by recognizing two new taxa, P. polydactylon subsp. udeghe and P. seneca.
2016. Magain, N., Sérusiaux, E., Zhurbenko, M. P., Lutzoni, F., & Miadlikowska, J. Herzogia, 29(2), 514-528.ORBI Journal Website
Dismantling the treasured flagship lichen Sticta fuliginosa (Peltigerales) into four species in Western Europe.
2015. Magain, N. & Sérusiaux, E. Mycological Progress, 14(10), 97.ORBI Journal Website
The lichen genus Kroswia is a synonym of Fuscopannaria (Pannariaceae)
2015. Magain, N. & Sérusiaux, E. The Lichenologist 47 (1), 35-42ORBI Journal Website
Do photobiont switch and cephalodia emancipation act as evolutionary drivers in the lichen symbiosis? A case study in the Pannariaceae (Peltigerales).
2014. Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. PloS one, 9(2).ORBI Journal Website
Phylogenetic placement, species delimitation, and cyanobiont identity of endangered aquatic Peltigera species (lichen‐forming Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes)
2014. Miadlikowska, J., Richardson, D., Magain, N., Ball, B., Anderson, F., Cameron, R., ... & Lutzoni, F. American journal of botany, 101(7), 1141-1156.ORBI Journal Website
A further new species in the lichen genus Arctomia; A. borbonica from Reunion (Mascarene archipelago).
2012. Magain, N., & Sérusiaux, E. MycoKeys, 4, 9-21.ORBI Journal Website
Further photomorphs in the lichen family Lobariaceae from Reunion (Mascarene archipelago) with notes on the phylogeny of Dendriscocaulon cyanomorphs
2012. Magain, N., Goffinet, B. & Sérusiaux, E. Bryologist 115 (2), 243-254ORBI Journal Website
Lecania falcata, a new species from Spain, the Canary Islands and the Azores, close to Lecania chlorotiza.
2012. Serusiaux, E., Brand, M. A., Coppins, B. J., & Magain, N. The Lichenologist, 44(5), 577-590.ORBI Journal Website
Discovering the Lichen Diversity of a Remote Tropical Island; Working List of Species Collected on Reunion (Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean)
2011. van den Boom, P. P., Brand, M., Ertz, D., Kalb, K., Magain, N., Masson, D., ... & Sérusiaux, E. Herzogia, 24(2), 325-349.ORBI Journal Website
Microsatellite primers in the Peltigera dolichorhiza complex (lichenized ascomycete, Peltigerales)
2010. Magain, N., Forrest, L.L., Sérusiaux, E. & Goffinet, B. American journal of botany 97 (10), e102-e104ORBI Journal Website