Spores before sporophytes: Hypothesizing the origin of sporogenesis at the algal-plant transition

New Phytologist

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 875-881

  Brown, Roy C ^a   Lemmon, Betty E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Early land plants; Meiosis; Microtubules; Spores

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; CAROTENOID; SPOROPOLLENIN;

ALGA; BRYOPHYTE; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GERMINATION; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); ORDOVICIAN; SPORE; SPOROPHYTE; SPORULATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL WALL; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOSS; PLANT GAMETOGENESIS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOPOLYMERS; BRYOPHYTA; CAROTENOIDS; CELL WALL; CYTOKINESIS; FOSSILS; GAMETOGENESIS, PLANT; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; SPORES;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 79955772673     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03709.x     Document Type: Article

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