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| العنوان: |
A Fossil Record of Spores before Sporophytes. |
| المؤلفون: |
Strother, Paul K., Taylor, Wilson A. |
| المصدر: |
Diversity (14242818); Jul2024, Vol. 16 Issue 7, p428, 20p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
FOSSILS, FOSSIL microorganisms, KARYOKINESIS, PLANT evolution, SPOROPOLLENIN, FOSSIL plants |
| مستخلص: |
Because their resistant, sporopolleninous walls preserve a record of morphogenetic change during spore formation, fossil cryptospores provide a direct physical record of the evolution of sporogenesis during the algal–plant transition. That transition itself is a story of the evolution of development—it is not about phylogeny. Here, we review the fossil record of terrestrially derived spore/cryptospore assemblages and attempt to place these microfossils in their evolutionary context with respect to the origin of complex multicellularity in plants. Cambrian cryptospores show features related to karyokinesis seen in extant charophytes, but they also possess ultrastructure similar to that seen in liverworts today. Dyadospora, a cryptospore dyad recovered from sporangia of Devonian embryophytes, first occurs in the earliest Ordovician. Tetrahedraletes, a likely precursor to the trilete spore, first occurs in the Middle Ordovician. These fossils correspond to evolutionary novelties that were acquired during a period of genome assembly prior to the existence of upright, axial sporophytes. The cryptospore/spore fossil record provides a temporal scaffold for the acquisition of novel characters relating to the evolution of plant sporogenesis during the Cambrian–Silurian interval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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