Early evolution of angiosperm pollen as inferred from molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses

Autor: James A Doyle
Rok vydání: 2005
Předmět:
Zdroj: Grana. 44:227-251
ISSN: 1651-2049
0017-3134
DOI: 10.1080/00173130500424557
Popis: Phylogenetic analyses of molecular and morphological data, revised in this study, shed light on long‐standing controversies on the early evolution of angiosperm pollen. Although relationships between angiosperms and other seed plants remain uncertain, the robust rooting of the angiosperms among the “ANITA” groups (Amborella, Nymphaeales, Illiciales, Trimenia, and Austrobaileya) clarifies their original pollen morphology. Contrary to the view that the first angiosperms had boat‐shaped monosulcate pollen with granular or atectate exine structure, the ANITA rooting implies that globose monosulcate pollen with more or less columellar structure and a continuous tectum was ancestral and a foveolate‐reticulate tectum arose soon after. The oldest recognized Cretaceous angiosperm pollen may represent the latter grade of evolution. Structure described as granular evolved independently from columellar within Nymphaeales, Magnoliales, and Laurales. In Magnoliales, columellar Myristicaceae and Magnoliaceae diverge bel...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje