The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes
@article{Qiu1999TheEA, title={The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes}, author={Yin Long Qiu and Jungho Lee and Fabiana Bernasconi-Quadroni and Douglas E. Soltis and Pamela S. Soltis and Michael J. Zanis and Elizabeth A. Zimmer and Zhiduan Chen and Vincent Savolainen and Mark W. Chase}, journal={Nature}, year={1999}, volume={402}, pages={404-407} }
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…
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