Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap

• Published in: Nature plants Vol. 5; no. 5; pp. 461 - 470
• Main Authors: Li, Hong-Tao, Yi, Ting-Shuang, Gao, Lian-Ming, Ma, Peng-Fei, Zhang, Ting, Yang, Jun-Bo, Gitzendanner, Matthew A., Fritsch, Peter W., Cai, Jie, Luo, Yang, Wang, Hong, van der Bank, Michelle, Zhang, Shu-Dong, Wang, Qing-Feng, Wang, Jian, Zhang, Zhi-Rong, Fu, Chao-Nan, Yang, Jing, Hollingsworth, Peter M., Chase, Mark W., Soltis, Douglas E., Soltis, Pamela S., Li, De-Zhu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.05.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 45/23; 631/181/757; 631/449/2669; 704/158/670; Biological Evolution; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Comparative studies; Cretaceous; Flowering plants; Fossils; Genes, Plant - genetics; Genome, Plant - genetics; Jurassic; Life Sciences; Magnoliopsida - genetics; Phylogeny; Plant Sciences; Triassic

Angiosperms are by far the most species-rich clade of land plants, but their origin and early evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We reconstructed angiosperm phylogeny based on 80 genes from 2,881 plastid genomes representing 85% of extant families and all orders. With a well-resolved pla...