期刊
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 23, 期 5, 页码 1011-1015出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj108
关键词
Mesostigma viride; land plant evolution; Streptophyta; histogenetic meristem; gene family
The search for the unicellular relative of Streptophyta (i.e., land plants and their closest green algal relatives, the charophytes) started many years ago and remained centered around the scaly green flagellate, Mesostigma viride. To date, despite numerous studies, the phylogenetic position of Mesostigma is still debated and the nature of the unicellular ancestor of Streptophyta remains unknown. As molecular phylogenetic studies have produced conflicting results, we constructed a M. viride expressed sequence tags library and searched for sequences that are shared between M. viride and the Streptophyta (to the exclusion of the other green algal lineages-the Chlorophyta). Here, we report a multigene family that is restricted to Streptophyta and M. viride. The phylogenetic distribution of this complex character and its potential involvement in the evolution of an important land plant adaptive trait (i.e., three-dimensional tissues) argue that Mesostigma is a close unicellular relative of Streptophyta.
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