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The Origin of Land Plants: A Phylogenomic Perspective

Author(s) -

B. Zhong,

Linhua Sun,

David Penny

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

evolutionary bioinformatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 1176-9343

DOI - 10.4137/ebo.s29089

Subject(s) - extant taxon , multicellular organism , phylogenetic tree , biology , algae , perspective (graphical) , evolutionary biology , sister group , phylogenetics , green algae , plant evolution , phylogenomics , ecology , botany , clade , genome , gene , genetics , computer science , artificial intelligence

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.

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