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The smallest Zosterophyllum plant from the Lower Devonian of South China and the divergent life-history strategies in zosterophyllopsids | |
通讯作者 | Huang, Pu([email protected]) |
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2025-01-15 | |
发表期刊 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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ISSN | 0962-8452 |
卷号 | 292期号:2038页码:12 |
摘要 | Plants have evolved different life-history strategies to overcome limited amounts of available resources; however, when and how divergent strategies of sexual reproduction evolved in early land plants are not well understood. As one of the notable and vital components of early terrestrial vegetation, the Zosterophyllopsida and its type genus Zosterophyllum reached maximum species diversity during the Pragian (Early Devonian; ca 410.8-407.6 million years ago). Here we describe a new species, Zosterophyllum baoyangense sp. nov., based on well-preserved specimens from the Pragian-aged Mangshan Group of Duyun, Guizhou Province, China. The new plant is characterized by its small size, K-shaped branching and tiny spikes with 5-10 sporangia. This plant is most likely r-selected, completing its whole lifespan in a short time, and such a strategy contributes to reproduction in a suitable window time. In contrast, most other species of Zosterophyllum and the zosterophyllopsids on a broader scale are larger in body size and have greater investments in fertile tissues, reflected in the size and total number of sporangia. We argue that the zosterophyllopsids probably benefited from the divergence of various life-history strategies and thus constituted a major part of the Early Devonian floras. |
关键词 | early land plants
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DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2024.2337 |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
关键词[WOS] | SICHUAN PROVINCE ; EARLY EVOLUTION ; YUNNAN ; MORPHOLOGY ; PALEOECOLOGY ; PHYSIOLOGY ; DIVERSITY ; INSIGHTS ; GEN. |
资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
WOS研究方向 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
WOS类目 | Biology ; Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:001397283800005 |
项目资助者 | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
出版者 | ROYAL SOC |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/44797 |
专题 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
通讯作者 | Huang, Pu |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 2.Geol Museum China, Beijing 100034, Peoples R China 3.Peking Univ, Sch Earth & Space Sci, Key Lab Orogen Belts & Crustal Evolut, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 4.Natl Nat Hist Museum China, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China 5.Suzhou Univ, Sch Resources & Civil Engn, Suzhou 234000, Peoples R China |
第一作者单位 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
通讯作者单位 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Huang, Pu,Wang, Jia-Shu,Wang, Yi-Ling,et al. The smallest Zosterophyllum plant from the Lower Devonian of South China and the divergent life-history strategies in zosterophyllopsids[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2025,292(2038):12. |
APA | Huang, Pu,Wang, Jia-Shu,Wang, Yi-Ling,Liu, Lu,Zhao, Jing-Yu,&Xue, Jin-Zhuang.(2025).The smallest Zosterophyllum plant from the Lower Devonian of South China and the divergent life-history strategies in zosterophyllopsids.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,292(2038),12. |
MLA | Huang, Pu,et al."The smallest Zosterophyllum plant from the Lower Devonian of South China and the divergent life-history strategies in zosterophyllopsids".PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 292.2038(2025):12. |
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