International collaboration finds land plant genes in ancient aquatic alga
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Published in Cell · View the paper (DOI)
An international collaboration sequenced and analyzed the genome of Chara braunii, a freshwater green alga closely related to land plants. The study identified key genes that originated in a common ancestor shared by Chara and land plants, revealing that some important plant functions evolved before land plants existed.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- International collaboration finds land plant genes in ancient aquatic alga University of Maryland · Jul 12, 2018 · first to report
- Algae have land genes University of Würzburg · Jul 12, 2018
- Elucidating the Chara genome: Implications for emergence of land plants in Paleozoic era Kanazawa University · Sep 6, 2018