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Molecular data from 27 proteins do not support a Precambrian origin of land plants

Michael J Sanderson1

  • 1Section of Evolution and Ecology, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.

American Journal of Botany
|June 11, 2011
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