Origin of land plants: Do conjugating green algae hold the key?
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The terrestrial habitat was colonized by the ancestors of modern land plants about 500 to 470 million years ago. Today it is widely accepted that land plants (embryophytes) evolved from streptophyte algae, also referred to as charoph...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/104 |