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SUBMITTER: Path2Models project
PROVIDER: BMID000000141431 | biostudies-other |
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): 24180668
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20110505 6032
Vascular plants appeared ~410 million years ago, then diverged into several lineages of which only two survive: the euphyllophytes (ferns and seed plants) and the lycophytes. We report here the genome sequence of the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii (Selaginella), the first nonseed vascular plant genome reported. By comparing gene content in evolutionarily diverse taxa, we found that the transition from a gametophyte- to a sporophyte-dominated life cycle required far fewer new genes than the ...[more]