Origin of land plants: Do conjugating gr
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Sabina Wodniok; Henner Brinkmann; Gernot GlΓΆckner; Andrew J Heidel; HervΓ© Philip
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Article
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2011
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BioMed Central
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English
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## Background The terrestrial habitat was colonized by the ancestors of modern land plants about 500 to 470 million years ago. Today it is widely accepted that land plants (embryophytes) evolved from streptophyte algae, also referred to as charophycean algae. The streptophyte algae are a paraphylet