• DOI:10.1126/science.1249884
Corpus ID: 38248823

Fossilized Nuclei and Chromosomes Reveal 180 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Royal Ferns

@article{Bomfleur2014FossilizedNA,
  title={Fossilized Nuclei and Chromosomes Reveal 180 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Royal Ferns},
  author={B. Bomfleur and S. McLoughlin and V. Vajda},
  journal={Science},
  year={2014},
  volume={343},
  pages={1376 - 1377}
}

• B. Bomfleur, S. McLoughlin, V. Vajda
• Published 2014
• Biology, Medicine
• Science

Cytologically Informative Fossils Fossilization processes tend to destroy fine-cell structure but, exceptionally, Bomfleur et al. (p. 1376) have found examples of fossil ferns from the Jurassic in which subcellular structures, including organelles such as nuclei and chromosomes, are well-preserved. Comparative and quantative analyses show that these cells closely resemble the fossil nuclei of extant cinnamon ferns, Osmundastrum cinnamomea, which indicates that this group of ferns has remained… Expand

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