@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref23314, author = {Benjamin Laenen and Blanka Shaw and Harald Schneider and Emmanuel Paradis and Aur?lie D?samor? and Jochen Heinrichs and Juan Carlos Villarreal and Robbert S. Gradstein and Stuart Frazier McDaniel and David G. Long and Laura Lowe Forrest and Michelle L. Hollingsworth and Barbara J. Crandall-Stotler and E. Christine Davis and John Engel and Matt von Konrat and Endymion C. Cooper and Jairo Pati?o and Alain Vanderpoorten and Jonathan A. Shaw}, title = {Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts.}, year = {2014}, keywords = {}, doi = {10.1038/ncomms6134}, url = {http://}, pmid = {}, journal = {Nature Communications}, volume = {5}, number = {5134}, pages = {}, abstract = {Bryophytes, a lineage that diverged early from other embryophytes evolved during a pivotal moment in the history of terrestrialization and have persisted for hundreds of million years. The .Documenting bryophyte diversification patterns and macroevolutionary history has been challenged by the scarcity of fossils and the lack of a general phylogenetic framework. Here, we dated the phylogenies of mosses, liverworts and hornworts from the most comprehensive taxon and character sampling to date to demonstrate that overall estimates of net species diversification are slightly less than twice lower than those reported in ferns and about three to four times lower than those described for angiosperms. Statistical rate analyses showed that mosses and liverworts underwent a burst of diversification since the mid-Mesozoic. The diversification rates further increased in specific lineages towards the Cenozoic. Our findings indicate that bryophytes, although accumulating diversity at a globally lower rate than other land plants, are still actively diversifying.} }

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