A molecular timescale for eukaryote evolution with implications for the origin of red algal-derived plastids

JFH Strassert, I Irisarri, TA Williams, F Burki - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
… simply photosynthesis) evolved in cyanobacteria … the first photosynthetic eukaryotes. There
are three main lineages with primary plastids: red algae, green algae (including land plants) …

Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants

D Silvestro, CD Bacon, W Ding, Q Zhang… - … ecology & evolution, 2021 - nature.com
… The fossil record alone provides only minimum constraints based on clade ages; evolutionary
timescales require further inference. However, molecular clocks are not the only methods …

Global plant–symbiont organization and emergence of biogeochemical cycles resolved by evolution-based trait modelling

M Lu, LO Hedin - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019 - nature.com
… We conclude that, as a consequence of land plant evolution, belowground symbioses
have been a key force influencing plant communities, and that, in turn, the resulting plant–soil–…

Fossil constraints on the timescale of parasitic helminth evolution

K De Baets, P Dentzien-Dias, GWM Harrison… - The evolution and fossil …, 2021 - Springer
… The oldest confidently identified nematode body fossils derives from the Early Devonian (…
with the early land plant, Aglaophyton major, and are considered the earliest evidence for plant

Early plant organics increased global terrestrial mud deposition through enhanced flocculation

SS Zeichner, J Nghiem, MP Lamb, N Takashima… - Science, 2021 - science.org
… from (3), shown alongside ranges of key evolutionary events in early plant evolution (1). The
amount of alluvial mudrock increased with proliferation of early diverging plant lineages (eg, …

Rhynie chert fossils demonstrate the independent origin and gradual evolution of lycophyte roots

AJ Hetherington, L Dolan - Current opinion in plant biology, 2019 - Elsevier
… The authors review the main phases of the evolution of mycorrhizal interactions with plants
by … hypothetical times for the evolution of key symbiotic events during land plant evolution. …

What is the age of flowering plants?

H Sauquet, S Ramírez-Barahona, S Magallón - 2022 - academic.oup.com
… Here, we first clarify and distinguish among the three ages of … on the time scale of flowering
plant diversification be … so much time and effort from plant evolutionary biologists. While we …

Evolutionary Timeline and Genomic Plasticity Underlying the Lifestyle Diversity in Rhizobiales

S Wang, A Meade, HM Lam, H Luo - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… of early land plants (3), the primitive interaction between these Rhizobiales lineages and …
earliest land plants might have contributed to the successful terrestrialization of early plants. …

A tenfold slowdown in river meander migration driven by plant life

A Ielpi, MGA Lapôtre - Nature Geoscience, 2020 - nature.com
… driven by the Palaeozoic evolution of plant life about 440 million … by the rise of land plants
dramatically impacted biogeochemical … We define an avulsion timescale, Ta = h/va, with va the …

Recalibration of the insect evolutionary time scale using Monte San Giorgio fossils suggests survival of key lineages through the End-Permian Extinction

M Montagna, KJ Tong, G Magoga… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… , we present a revised time scale for insect evolution. Our date … We found that major
evolutionary innovations, including flight … implications for understanding the evolution of insects …