Permanent spore dyads are not 'a thing of the past': On their occurrence in the liverwort Haplomitrium (Haplomitriopsida)

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 658-669

  Renzaglia, Karen S ^a   Crandall Stotler, Barbara ^a   Pressel, Silvia ^b   Duckett, Jeffrey G ^b   Schuette, Scott ^c   Strother, Paul K ^d  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Western Pennsylvania Conservancy   (United States)

^d BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; Cryptospores; Early land plant evolution; Endosporic germination; Exine; Non synchronous cytokinesis; Spore wall; Sporogenesis; Tetrad; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DEVONIAN; LIVERWORT; MORPHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN; SPORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BRYOPHYTES; CRYPTOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; HAPLOMITRIUM; HAPLOMITRIUM GIBBSIAE; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 84946492415     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12343     Document Type: Article

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