Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6820, 2001, Pages 618-621

  Pryer, Kathleen M ^a   Schneider, Harald ^a   Smith, Alan R ^b   Cranfill, Raymond ^b   Wolf, Paul G ^c   Hunt, Jeffrey S ^a   Sipes, Sedonia D ^c  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

FLOWERING PLANT; LINEATION; PHYLOGENETICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; FERN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANGIOSPERMS; DNA, PLANT; EQUISETUM; EVOLUTION; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; ENTOVALVA; EQUISETALES; EQUISETOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PSILOTOPHYTA; PSILOTUM; PTERIDOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0035252353     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35054555     Document Type: Article

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