The timescale of early land plant evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2018, Pages E2274-E2283

  Morris, Jennifer L ^a   Puttick, Mark N ^a,b   Clark, James W ^a   Edwards, Dianne ^c   Kenrick, Paul ^b   Pressel, Silvia ^b   Wellman, Charles H ^d   Yang, Ziheng ^e,f   Schneider, Harald ^a,b,g   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Embryophyta; Evolution; Phylogeny; Plant; Timescale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EMBRYOPHYTA; FOSSIL PLANT; GENETIC CODE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRIDIPLANTAE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; TIME FACTOR;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85042945201     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719588115     Document Type: Article

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