フェーズコントラストX線マイクロトモグラフィーは,白期の種をグネタレスとベネットタレスと結びつける
Else Marie Friis1, Peter R Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen
1Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. else.marie.friis@nrm.se
Nature
|November 23, 2007
まとめ
クレータ紀の化石の種は,グネタレス,ベネットタレス,初期のアンジオスペルムとの関係を明らかにしています. この発見はアンソフィット仮説を裏付け,種植物の進化に関する私たちの理解を再構築します.
科学分野:
- パレオボタニーは古植物学です.
- 進化生物学の進化生物学について
- X線顕微鏡によるX線顕微鏡
背景:
- クレタ紀の植物メソ化石,特に化石の花は,初期のアンジオスペルマについて私たちの理解を大幅に進めてきました.
- これらのメソフォシルの集合体内の他の種子植物の残骸は,主に見過ごされています.
- 炭化化石は複雑な3D形態と細胞の詳細を保存し,ユニークな洞察を提供している.
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