Broad Phylogenomic Sampling and the Sister Lineage of Land Plants

The tremendous diversity of land plants all descended from a single charophyte green alga that colonized the land somewhere between 430 and 470 million years ago. Six orders of charophyte green algae, in addition to embryophytes, comprise the Streptophyta s.l. Previous studies have focused on recons...

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Main Authors: Timme, Ruth E., Bachvaroff, Tsvetan R., Delwiche, Charles F.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258253/