A community‐derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns

PPG I - Journal of systematics and evolution, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Phylogeny has long informed pteridophyte classification. As our ability to infer evolutionary
trees has improved, classifications aimed at recognizing natural groups have become …

The evolution, morphology, and development of fern leaves

A Vasco, RC Moran, BA Ambrose - Frontiers in plant science, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
Leaves are lateral determinate structures formed in a predictable sequence (phyllotaxy) on
the flanks of an indeterminate shoot apical meristem. The origin and evolution of leaves in …

Single-molecule sequencing and optical map** yields an improved genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) with chromosome-scale contiguity

PP Edger, R VanBuren, M Colle, TJ Poorten… - …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Although draft genomes are available for most agronomically important plant
species, the majority are incomplete, highly fragmented, and often riddled with assembly …

A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns

M Christenhusz, XC Zhang, H Schneider - Phytotaxa, 2011‏ - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Throughout the history of the classification of extant ferns (monilophytes) and lycophytes,
familial and generic concepts have been in great flux. For the organisation of lycophytes and …

Recently formed polyploid plants diversify at lower rates

I Mayrose, SH Zhan, CJ Rothfels, K Magnuson-Ford… - Science, 2011‏ - science.org
Polyploidy, the doubling of genomic content, is a widespread feature, especially among
plants, yet its macroevolutionary impacts are contentious. Traditionally, polyploidy has been …

The physiological resilience of fern sporophytes and gametophytes: advances in water relations offer new insights into an old lineage

J Pittermann, C Brodersen, JE Watkins Jr - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
Ferns are some of the oldest vascular plants in existence and they are the second most
diverse lineage of tracheophytes next to angiosperms. Recent efforts to understand fern …

Fern phylogeny inferred from 400 leptosporangiate species and three plastid genes

E Schuettpelz, KM Pryer - Taxon, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
In an effort to obtain a solid and balanced approximation of global fern phylogeny to serve
as a tool for addressing large‐scale evolutionary questions, we assembled and analyzed …

The evolutionary history of ferns inferred from 25 low‐copy nuclear genes

CJ Rothfels, FW Li, EM Sigel, L Huiet… - American Journal of …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Understanding fern (monilophyte) phylogeny and its evolutionary
timescale is critical for broad investigations of the evolution of land plants, and for providing …

[PDF][PDF] Fern classification

AR Smith, KM Pryer, E Schuettpelz, P Korall… - Biology and evolution …, 2008‏ - sites.duke.edu
Over the past 70 years, many fern classifications, nearly all based on morphology, most
explicitly or implicitly phylogenetic, have been proposed. The most complete and commonly …

Large-scale phylogenomic analysis resolves a backbone phylogeny in ferns

H Shen, D **, JP Shu, XL Zhou, M Lei, R Wei… - …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Ferns, originated about 360 million years ago, are the sister group of seed
plants. Despite the remarkable progress in our understanding of fern phylogeny, with …