The Origin of Land Plants: A Phylogenomic Perspective

Land plants are a natural group, and Charophyte algae are the closest lineages of land plants and have six morphologically diverged groups. The conjugating green algae (Zygnematales) are now suggested to be the extant sister group to land plants, providing the novel understanding for character evolu...

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Hlavní autoři: Bojian Zhong, Linhua Sun, David Penny
Médium: Článek
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Edice:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
On-line přístup:https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S29089
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Shrnutí:Land plants are a natural group, and Charophyte algae are the closest lineages of land plants and have six morphologically diverged groups. The conjugating green algae (Zygnematales) are now suggested to be the extant sister group to land plants, providing the novel understanding for character evolution and early multicellular innovations in land plants. We review recent molecular phylogenetic work on the origin of land plants and discuss some future directions in phylogenomic analyses.
ISSN:1176-9343