Genomes and Evolution of Charophytes, Bryophytes, Lycophytes and Ferns /
Genome sequences of nonvertebrate genomes have greatly informed our understanding of animal evolution. In similar fashion, the sequencing of the genomes of the moss Physcomitrella patens and of the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii have helped to unriddle plant evolution by means of comparative g...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Advances in botanical research ;
v. 78. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Summary: | Genome sequences of nonvertebrate genomes have greatly informed our understanding of animal evolution. In similar fashion, the sequencing of the genomes of the moss Physcomitrella patens and of the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii have helped to unriddle plant evolution by means of comparative genomics and evolutionary develomental (evo-devo) studies. However, many extant land plant lineages of non-seed plants still did not have a representative with a sequenced genome until recently, or are work in progress. The focus of this book is on these so far neglected lineages, namely charophyte algae that are the sister group of the land plants, the paraphyletic bryophytes (hornworts, mosses and liverworts), as well as the lycophytes (club mosses) and ferns. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780128013243 0128013249 9780128011027 0128011025 |
