Phylogeny, Ages, Molecules and Fossils of Land Plants
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 435
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land plant phylogeny and evolution; mitochondrial genome evolution
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Interests: early land plant evolution; bryophyte phylogeny; phylogenomics; comparative genomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land plants represent one of the most important groups of eukaryotes in the terrestrial biota. Recent active research on their phylogeny and evolution using gene and genomic sequences, as well as morphological characters of extant and extinct taxa, have greatly improved our understanding of relationships among many important clades. Furthermore, the availability of big data and advances in computational methods and software of molecular clock studies have made divergence time studies an active area of research. Tremendous progress has been made in improving our understanding of the evolutionary history of this large group. At the same time, some long-established hypotheses have been challenged and controversies have also been generated.
This Special Issue offers a collection of review and primary research papers that report on the latest status of this important field. Submissions on phylogenetics, phylogenomics, divergence time studies, and paleobotany of all groups of land plants are all welcome.
Dr. Yin-Long Qiu
Dr. Yang Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land plants
- phylogeny
- divergence time
- molecular clock
- fossil
- evolution
