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SCIENCE
Volume 289, Issue 5486, Pages 1920-1921Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5486.1920
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Fossilized fungal hyphae and spores from the Ordovician of Wisconsin (with an age of about 460 million years) strongly resemble modern arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomales, Zygomycetes), These fossils indicate that Glomales-like fungi were present at a time when the Land flora most likely only consisted of plants; on,the bryophytic Level. Thus, these fungi may have played a crucial role in facilitating the colonization of Land by plants, and the fossils support molecular estimates of fungal phylogeny that place the origin of the major groups of terrestrial fungi (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Glomales) around 600 million years ago.
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