Terrestrial hot spring systems: Introduction

DJ Des Marais, MR Walter - Astrobiology, 2019 - liebertpub.com
This report reviews how terrestrial hot spring systems can sustain diverse and abundant
microbial communities and preserve their fossil records. Hot springs are dependable water …

Phylogenomics, divergence times and notes of orders in Basidiomycota

MQ He, B Cao, F Liu, T Boekhout, TT Denchev… - Fungal diversity, 2024 - Springer
Basidiomycota is one of the major phyla in the fungal tree of life. The outline of
Basidiomycota provides essential taxonomic information for researchers and workers in …

Paleoecology, ploidy, paleoatmospheric composition, and developmental biology: a review of the multiple uses of fossil stomata

JC McElwain, M Steinthorsdottir - Plant Physiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Paleoecology, Ploidy, Paleoatmospheric Composition, and Developmental Biology: A Review
of the Multiple Uses of Fossil Stomata | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main …

Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae

S Bengtson, T Sallstedt, V Belivanova… - PLoS Biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The~ 1.6 Ga Tirohan Dolomite of the Lower Vindhyan in central India contains phosphatized
stromatolitic microbialites. We report from there uniquely well-preserved fossils interpreted …

A 4000-species dataset provides new insight into the evolution of ferns

W Testo, M Sundue - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Ferns are the second-most diverse lineage of vascular plants on Earth, yet the best-sampled
time-calibrated phylogeny of the group to date includes fewer than 5% of global diversity …

1.63-billion-year-old multicellular eukaryotes from the Chuanlinggou Formation in North China

L Miao, Z Yin, AH Knoll, Y Qu, M Zhu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Multicellularity is key to the functional and ecological success of the Eukarya, underpinning
much of their modern diversity in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Despite the …

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 …

Genome evolution of ferns: evidence for relative stasis of genome size across the fern phylogeny

J Clark, O Hidalgo, J Pellicer, H Liu… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The genome evolution of ferns has been considered to be relatively static compared with
angiosperms. In this study, we analyse genome size data and chromosome numbers in a …

Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns

S Lehtonen, D Silvestro, DN Karger, C Scotese… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to
investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species diversification, and the …

Wood petrifaction: A new view of permineralization and replacement

GE Mustoe - Geosciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Petrified wood has traditionally been divided into two categories based on preservation
processes: permineralization (where tissues are entombed within a mineral-filled matrix) …