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Environmental mutagenesis during the end-Permian ecological crisis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Aug 2004
Visscher Henk, Looy Cindy V, Collinson Margaret E, Brinkhuis Henk, van Konijnenburg-van Cittert Johanna H A, Kürschner Wolfram M, Sephton Mark A
Abstract excerpt
During the end-Permian ecological crisis, terrestrial ecosystems experienced preferential dieback of woody vegetation. Across the world, surviving herbaceous lycopsids played a pioneering role in repopulating deforested terrain. We document that the microspores of these lycopsids were regularly released in unseparated tetrads indicative of failure to complete the normal process of spore development. Although...
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