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Genomes and Evolution of Charophytes, Bryophytes, Lycophytes and Ferns
1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations).
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.
Technological innovations give rise to a new era of plant evolutionary developmental biology / K. Sakakibara -- Coevolution of organelle RNA editing and nuclear specificity factors in early land plants / M. Schallenberg-Rüdinger, V. Knoop -- The genome of the model moss Physcomitrella patens / D. Lang, N. van Gessel, K.K. Ullrich, R. Reski -- The Ceratodon purpureus transcriptome ushers in the era of moss comparative genomics / S.F. McDaniel, P.-F. Perroud, A.C. Cuming, P. Szövényi -- The Sphagnum genome project : a new model for ecological and evolutionary genomics / A.J. Shaw, J. Schmutz, N. Devos, S. Shu, A.A. Carrell, D.J. Weston -- The genome of the model species Anthoceros agrestis / P. Szövényi -- Evolutionary genomics of ferns and lycophytes / E.B. Sessa, J.P. Der -- The genomes of charophyute green algae / C.F. Delwiche.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.