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SUBMITTER: Feldberg K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4124468 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feldberg Kathrin K Schneider Harald H Stadler Tanja T Schäfer-Verwimp Alfons A Schmidt Alexander R AR Heinrichs Jochen J
Scientific reports 20140807
Recent studies have provided evidence for pulses in the diversification of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and mosses as well as various groups of animals during the Cretaceous revolution of terrestrial ecosystems. However, evidence for such pulses has not been reported so far for liverworts. Here we provide new insight into liverwort evolution by integrating a comprehensive molecular dataset with a set of 20 fossil age constraints. We found evidence for a relative constant diversification rate ...[more]