The green lineage (Viridiplantae) comprises the green algae and their descendants the land
plants, and is one of the major groups of oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes. Current …

The green lineage of chlorophyte algae and streptophytes form a large and diverse clade
with multiple independent transitions to produce multicellular and/or macroscopically …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

ABSTRACT The Plant Transcription Factor Database (PlnTFDB; http://plntfdb. bio. uni-
potsdam. de/v3. 0/) is an integrative database that provides putatively complete sets of …

The transition to multicellularity has occurred numerous times in all domains of life, yet its
initial steps are poorly understood. The volvocine green algae are a tractable system for …

The repeated evolution of multicellularity across the tree of life has profoundly affected the
ecology and evolution of nearly all life on Earth. Many of these origins were in different …

Evolutionary retention of duplicated genes encoding transcription-associated proteins
(TAPs, comprising transcription factors and other transcriptional regulators) has been …

Patterning of a multicellular body plan involves a coordinated set of developmental
processes that includes cell division, morphogenesis, and cellular differentiation. These …

The transition of life from single cells to more complex multicellular forms has occurred at
least two dozen times among eukaryotes and is one of the major evolutionary transitions, but …

The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii undergoes gametogenesis and mating upon
nitrogen starvation. While the steps involved in its sexual reproductive cycle have been …