• DOI:10.1038/46536
Corpus ID: 4380796

The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes

@article{Qiu1999TheEA,
  title={The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes},
  author={Y. Qiu and J. Lee and F. Bernasconi-Quadroni and D. Soltis and P. Soltis and Michael J. Zanis and E. Zimmer and Z. Chen and V. Savolainen and M. Chase},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1999},
  volume={402},
  pages={404-407}
}

• Y. Qiu, J. Lee, +7 authors M. Chase
• Published 1999
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature

Angiosperms have dominated the Earth's vegetation since the mid-Cretaceous (90 million years ago), providing much of our food, fibre, medicine and timber, yet their origin and early evolution have remained enigmatic for over a century. One part of the enigma lies in the difficulty of identifying the earliest angiosperms; the other involves the uncertainty regarding the sister group of angiosperms among extant and fossil gymnosperms. Here we report a phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences of… Expand

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