Changing expressions: A hypothesis for the origin of the vascular plant life cycle

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1739, 2018, Pages

  Kenrick, Paul ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fossil; Gametophyte; Homeodomain; Life cycle; Plant

Indexed keywords

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; COLONIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SPOROPHYTE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; VASCULAR PLANT;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

ECOSYSTEM; EMBRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SCOTLAND;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EMBRYOPHYTA; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAITS; REPRODUCTION; SCOTLAND;

EID: 85038426876     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0149     Document Type: Review

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