References for Liverworts on the Green Tree of Life
Cox, C.J., B. Goffinet, A.E. Newton, A.J. Shaw, and T.A. Hedderson, 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among the diplolepideous-alternate mosses (Bryidae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. The Bryologist 103:224-240.
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Felsenstein, J.S. 1984, Distance methods for inferring phylogenies: A justification. Evolution 38:16-24.
Garbary, D.J., and K.S. Renzaglia, 1998. Bryophyte phylogeny and the evolution of land plants: evidence from development and ultrastructure. In: J.W. Bates, N.W. Ashton, and J.G. Duckett (Eds.), Bryology for the Twenty-first Century. Maney and British Bryological Society, Leeds, pp. 45-63.
Goremykin, V. V. and F. H. Hellwig. 2005. Evidence for the most basal split in land plants dividing bryophyte and tracheophyte lineages. Plant Systematics and Evolution 254: 93–103.
Groth-Malonek, M., K. Pruchner, F. Grewe, and V. Knoop. 2005. Ancestors of Trans-Splicing Mitochondrial Introns Support Serial Sister Group Relationships of Hornwort and Mosses with Vascular Plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:117–125.
Groth-Malonek, M., and V. Knoop. 2005. Bryophytes and other basal land plants: the mitochondrial perspective. Taxon 54: 293-297.
Hedderson, T.A., R.L. Chapman, and C. Cox, 1998. Bryophytes and the origins and diversification of land plants: new evidence from molecules. Pages 65-77 in Bryology for the Twenty-first Century (J.W. Bates, N.W. Ashton, and J.G. Duckett, eds.). Maney and British Bryological Society, Leeds.
Hedderson, T.A., R.L. Chapman, and W.L. Rootes, 1996. Phylogenetic relationships of bryophytes inferred from nuclear encoded rRNA gene sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 200: 213-224.
Kugita, A. K., Y. Yamamoto, Y. Takeya, T. Matsumoto, and K. Yoshinaga., 2003. The complete nucleotide sequence of the hornwort (Anthoceros formosae) chloroplast genome: insight into the earliest land plants. Nucleic Acids Research 31: 716-721.
Lewis, L.A., B.D. Mishler, and R. Vilgalys, 1997. Phylogenetic relationships of the liverworts (Hepaticae), a basal embryophyte lineage, inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7:377-393.
Mishler, B.D., L.A. Lewis, M.A. Buchheim, K.S. Renzaglia, D.J. Garbary, C.F. Delwiche, F.W. Zechman, T.S. Kantz, R.L. Chapman, 1994. Phylogenetic relationships of the "green algae" and "bryophytes." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 81: 451-483.
Mishler, B.D. and S.P. Churchill, 1984. A cladistic approach to the phylogeny of the "bryophytes." Brittonia 36:406-424.
Nickrent, D.L., C.L. Parkinson, J.D. Palmer, and R.J. Duff, 2000. Multigene phylogeny of land plants with special reference to bryophytes and the earliest land plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17(12): 1885-1895.
Nishiyama, T. and M. Kato, 1999. Molecular phylogenetic analysis among bryophytes and tracheophytes based on combined data of plastid coding genes and the 18S rRNA gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16:1027-1036.
Nishiyama, T., P. G. Wolf, M. Kugita, R. B. Sinclair, M. Sugita, C. Sugiura, T. Wakasugi, K. Yamada, K. Yoshinaga, K. Yamagchi, K. Ueda, and M. Hasebe, 2004. Chloroplast phylogeny indicates that bryophytes are monophyletic. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 1813-1819.
Pruchner, D., B. Nassal, M. Schindler, and V. Knoop, 2001. Mosses share mitochondrial group II introns with flowering plants, not with liverworts. Molecular Genetetics and Genomics 266:608-613.
Qiu, Y-L, Y. Cho, J.C. Cox, and J.D. Palmer, 1998. The gain of
three mitochondrial
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Renzaglia, K.S., R.J. Duff, and D.J. Garbary, 2000. Vegetative
and reproductive
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Renzaglia, K.S., and K. C. Vaughn, 2000. Anatomy, development,
and classification of
hornworts. In: A. J. Shaw and B. Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology
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Sztein, A.A., J.D. Cohen, J.P. Slovin, and T.J. Cooke, 1995. Auxin metabolism in representative land plants. American Journal of Botany 82: 1514-1521.
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