Bangiomorpha pubescensn. gen., n. sp.: implications for the evolution of sex, multicellularity, and the Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic radiation of eukaryotes
Multicellular filaments from the ca. 1200-Ma Hunting Formation (Somerset Island, arctic Canada) are identified as bangiacean red algae on the basis of diagnostic cell-division patterns. As the oldest taxonomically resolved eukaryote on record Bangiomorpha pubescens n. gen. n. sp. provides a key datu...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2000
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026%3C0386:bpngns%3E2.0.co%3B2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0094837300021485 |