Charophyte Ancestry is a theoretical construct in evolutionary botany that identifies the charophytes, a group of green algae, as the closest living relatives and direct ancestors of land plants, distinguishing them from other algal lineages by shared morphological, biochemical, and molecular traits indicative of terrestrial adaptation.
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Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome
John L. Bowman, Takayuki Kohchi, Katsuyuki T. Yamato et al. · Cell · 2017 · 1.3K citations · Full text
Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae
Frédérik Leliaert, David Roy Smith, Hervé Moreau et al. · Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences · 2012 · 886 citations
The Closest Living Relatives of Land Plants
Kenneth G. Karol, Richard M. McCourt, Matthew T. Cimino et al. · Science · 2001 · 562 citations
The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization
Tomoaki Nishiyama, Hidetoshi Sakayama, Jan de Vries et al. · Cell · 2018 · 549 citations · Full text
Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes
Burkhard Becker, Birger Marin · Annals of Botany · 2009 · 360 citations · Full text
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University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
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Université Laval
Québec, Canada
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University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, United States
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University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, United States
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Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, United States
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University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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- PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
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- Cretaceous Research
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