<i>REVIEW: CURRENT PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT EVOLUTION</i>

Authors

  • José Sebastián Carrión García
  • Baltasar Cabezudo
Keywords: plant evolution, phylogeny, palaeobotany, fungi, algae, land plants, seed plants, angiosperms

Abstract

This paper is a critical review of several methodological, conceptual and phylogenetic topics in the evolution of cyanobacteria, fungi, algae, and terrestrial plants. Those include the fossil record of DNA and other biomolecules, the challenges with cladistics and the new phyletic codes, the issues of conventional scenarios of coadaptation, punctuated equilibria, the role of heterochronic and heterotopic alterations, parasaltation, horizontal gene transfer, the project , the fossil evidence of photosynthetic prokaryotes and acritarcs, the terrestrialization and origin of embryophytes, and the radiation of teridophytes, pteridosperms, and modern groups of seed plants. Finally, several recent hypotheses about the origin of the angiosperm syndrome are revised from an ontogenetic perspective.

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Author Biographies

José Sebastián Carrión García

Universidad de Murcia

Baltasar Cabezudo

Universidad de Málaga
How to Cite
Carrión García, J. S., & Cabezudo, B. (2003). <i>REVIEW: CURRENT PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT EVOLUTION</i>. Anales de Biología, (25), 163–198. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesbio/article/view/31101
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