Are the genomes of royal ferns really frozen in time? Evidence for coinciding genome stability and limited evolvability in the royal ferns

New Phytol. 2015 Jul;207(1):10-13. doi: 10.1111/nph.13330. Epub 2015 Feb 5.

Authors

Harald Schneider¹, Hongmei Liu², James Clark¹, Oriane Hidalgo³, Jaume Pellicer³, Shouzhou Zhang², Laura J Kelly⁴, Michael F Fay³, Ilia J Leitch³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
² Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairylake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518004, P. R. China.
³ Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW8 3DS, UK.
⁴ School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK.

PMID: 25655176
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13330

No abstract available

Keywords: Osmundaceae; diversification; evolutionary capacity; evolutionary stasis; fossil record; genome evolution; genome size.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Biological Evolution*
Cell Nucleus / ultrastructure*
Chromosomes, Plant / ultrastructure*
Ferns / genetics*
Fossils*
Genome, Plant*