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Land plant evolutionary timeline: Gene effects are secondary to fossil constraints in relaxed clock estimation of age and substitution rates by Magallón, Susana, Hilu, Khidir W, Quandt, Dietmar

“…• Premise of the study: Land plants play an essential role in the evolution of terrestrial life. Their time of origin and diversification is fundamental to…”
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Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes by Liu, Yang, Johnson, Matthew G., Cox, Cymon J., Medina, Rafael, Devos, Nicolas, Vanderpoorten, Alain, Hedenäs, Lars, Bell, Neil E., Shevock, James R., Aguero, Blanka, Quandt, Dietmar, Wickett, Norman J., Shaw, A. Jonathan, Goffinet, Bernard

“…Mosses are a highly diverse lineage of land plants, whose diversification, spanning at least 400 million years, remains phylogenetically ambiguous due to the…”
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The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function by Wicke, Susann, Schneeweiss, Gerald M., dePamphilis, Claude W., Müller, Kai F., Quandt, Dietmar

“…This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview…”
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Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis by Lutzoni, François, Nowak, Michael D., Alfaro, Michael E., Reeb, Valérie, Miadlikowska, Jolanta, Krug, Michael, Arnold, A. Elizabeth, Lewis, Louise A., Swofford, David L., Hibbett, David, Hilu, Khidir, James, Timothy Y., Quandt, Dietmar, Magallón, Susana

“…Interactions between fungi and plants, including parasitism, mutualism, and saprotrophy, have been invoked as key to their respective macroevolutionary…”
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Mechanistic model of evolutionary rate variation en route to a nonphotosynthetic lifestyle in plants by Wicke, Susann, Müller, Kai F., dePamphilis, Claude W., Quandt, Dietmar, Bellot, Sidonie, Schneeweiss, Gerald M.

“…Because novel environmental conditions alter the selection pressure on genes or entire subgenomes, adaptive and nonadaptive changes will leave a measurable…”
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Mechanisms of Functional and Physical Genome Reduction in Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants of the Broomrape Family by Wicke, Susann, Müller, Kai F., de Pamphilis, Claude W., Quandt, Dietmar, Wickett, Norman J., Zhang, Yan, Renner, Susanne S., Schneeweiss, Gerald M.

“…Nonphotosynthetic plants possess strongly reconfigured plastomes attributable to convergent losses of photosynthesis and housekeeping genes, making them…”
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Living at its dry limits: Tillandsiales in the Atacama Desert by Koch, Marcus A., Quandt, Dietmar, Siegmund, Alexander

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Plant life at the dry limit-Spatial patterns of floristic diversity and composition around the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by Ruhm, Jonathan, Böhnert, Tim, Weigend, Maximilian, Merklinger, Felix F, Stoll, Alexandra, Quandt, Dietmar, Luebert, Federico

“…Extreme arid conditions in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile have created a unique vegetation almost entirely restricted to the desert margins along the…”
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Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts by Li, Fay-Wei, Nishiyama, Tomoaki, Waller, Manuel, Frangedakis, Eftychios, Keller, Jean, Li, Zheng, Fernandez-Pozo, Noe, Barker, Michael S., Bennett, Tom, Blázquez, Miguel A., Cheng, Shifeng, Cuming, Andrew C., de Vries, Jan, de Vries, Sophie, Delaux, Pierre-Marc, Diop, Issa S., Harrison, C. Jill, Hauser, Duncan, Hernández-García, Jorge, Kirbis, Alexander, Meeks, John C., Monte, Isabel, Mutte, Sumanth K., Neubauer, Anna, Quandt, Dietmar, Robison, Tanner, Shimamura, Masaki, Rensing, Stefan A., Villarreal, Juan Carlos, Weijers, Dolf, Wicke, Susann, Wong, Gane K.-S., Sakakibara, Keiko, Szövényi, Péter

“…Hornworts comprise a bryophyte lineage that diverged from other extant land plants >400 million years ago and bears unique biological features, including a…”
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Setting the evolutionary timeline: Tillandsia landbeckii in the Chilean Atacama Desert by Möbus, Johanna, Kiefer, Christiane, Quandt, Dietmar, Barfuss, Michael H., Koch, Marcus A.

“…The Chilean Atacama Desert is among the oldest deserts of the world. Here, Tillandsia landbeckii is forming a unique vegetation type known as Tillandsia lomas…”
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Tillandsia landbeckii phyllosphere and laimosphere as refugia for bacterial life in a hyperarid desert environment by Hakobyan, Anna, Velte, Stefanie, Sickel, Wiebke, Quandt, Dietmar, Stoll, Alexandra, Knief, Claudia

“…BackgroundThe lack of water is a major constraint for microbial life in hyperarid deserts. Consequently, the abundance and diversity of microorganisms in…”
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BarKeeper—a versatile web framework to assemble, analyse and manage DNA barcoding data and metadata by Wiechers, Sarah, Kösters, Lara Marie, Quandt, Dietmar, Borsch, Thomas, Wicke, Susann, Müller, Kai Frank

“…DNA barcoding aids in rapidly identifying specimens in various contexts by comparing short stretches of DNA to a reference database. Barcoding initiatives…”
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Establishment of Anthoceros agrestis as a model species for studying the biology of hornworts by Szövényi, Péter, Frangedakis, Eftychios, Ricca, Mariana, Quandt, Dietmar, Wicke, Susann, Langdale, Jane A

“…Plants colonized terrestrial environments approximately 480 million years ago and have contributed significantly to the diversification of life on Earth…”
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Hoefkenia hunsrueckensis, a New Genus and Species from Europe, and the Identity of Virescentia vogesiaca (F.W.Schultz ex Skuja) Necchi, D.C.Agostinho & M.L.Vis (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) by Fischer, Eberhard, Killmann, Dorothee, Gerlach, Johanna, Schütte, Claudia, Leh, Burkhard, Müller, Kai, Quandt, Dietmar

“…Freshwater red algae from Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park previously identified as Virescentia vogesiaca are described as Hoefkenia hunsrueckensis gen. et sp…”
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Organellar-genome analyses from the lycophyte genus Isoetes L. show one of the highest frequencies of RNA editing in land plants by Pereira, Jovani Bernardino de Souza, Oliveira, Renato Renison Moreira, Vasconcelos, Santelmo, Dias, Mariana Costa, Caldeira, Cecílio Frois, Quandt, Dietmar, Oliveira, Guilherme, Prado, Jefferson

“…RNA editing is a post-transcriptional process that challenges the central dogma of molecular biology by modifying RNA sequences, introducing nucleotide changes…”
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deepest divergences in land plants inferred from phylogenomic evidence by Qiu, Y.L, Li, L, Wang, B, Chen, Z, Knoop, V, Groth-Malonek, M, Dombrovska, O, Lee, J, Kent, L, Rest, J

“…Phylogenetic relationships among the four major lineages of land plants (liverworts, mosses, hornworts, and vascular plants) remain vigorously contested; their…”
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Functional Diversity in Ferns Is Driven by Species Richness Rather Than by Environmental Constraints by Aros-Mualin, Daniela, Noben, Sarah, Karger, Dirk N, Carvajal-Hernández, César I, Salazar, Laura, Hernández-Rojas, Adriana, Kluge, Jürgen, Sundue, Michael A, Lehnert, Marcus, Quandt, Dietmar, Kessler, Michael

“…Functional traits determine how species interact with their abiotic and biotic environment. In turn, functional diversity describes how assemblages of species…”
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Different Predictors Shape the Diversity Patterns of Epiphytic and Non-epiphytic Liverworts in Montane Forests of Uganda by Maul, Karola, Wei, Yu-Mei, Nebel, Martin, Luebert, Federico, Ho, Boon-Chuan, Quandt, Dietmar, Kessler, Michael

“…We studied the influence of regional and local variables on the liverwort diversity within natural forest vegetation of Uganda to contribute to our…”
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Development of microsatellite markers and assembly of the plastid genome in Cistanthe longiscapa (Montiaceae) based on low-coverage whole genome sequencing by Stoll, Alexandra, Harpke, Dörte, Schütte, Claudia, Stefanczyk, Nadine, Brandt, Ronny, Blattner, Frank R, Quandt, Dietmar

“…Cistanthe longiscapa is an endemic annual herb and characteristic element of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Principal threats are the destruction of its seed…”
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The freshwater red algae (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) of Africa and Madagascar I. New species of Kumanoa, Sirodotia and the new genus Ahidranoa (Batrachospermaceae) by Fischer, Eberhard, Gerlach, Johanna, Killmann, Dorothee, Quandt, Dietmar

“…Our knowledge of the diversity of African freshwater red algae is rather limited. Only a few reports exist. During our field work in the last five years we…”
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