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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages 369-373Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(03)00161-4
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With molecular analyses indicating that angiosperms are not closely related to any other extant seed plant group, information from fossils might provide the only basis for reconstructing their origin. Therefore the description of a new Early Cretaceous angiosperm, Archaefructus, placed as the sister of all extant angiosperms, has created much debate and optimism. However, we question both the interpretation and the analysis of Archaefructus, concluding that it might be a crown-group angiosperm specialized for aquatic habit rather than a more primitive relative.
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