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Phylogenomics indicates the "living fossil" Isoetes diversified in the Cenozoic.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Wood Daniel, Besnard Guillaume, Beerling David J, Osborne Colin P, Christin Pascal-Antoine
Abstract excerpt
The fossil record provides an invaluable insight into the temporal origins of extant lineages of organisms. However, establishing the relationships between fossils and extant lineages can be difficult in groups with low rates of morphological change over time. Molecular dating can potentially circumvent this issue by allowing distant fossils to act as calibration points, but rate variation across large...
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