The Natural History of Model Organisms: The biology of C. richardii as a tool to understand plant evolution
- Chicago Botanic Garden, United States
- University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
Abstract
The fern Ceratopteris richardii has been studied as a model organism for over 50 years because it is easy to grow and has a short life cycle. In particular, as the first homosporous vascular plant for which genomic resources were developed, C. richardii has been an important system for studying plant evolution. However, we know relatively little about the natural history of C. richardii. In this article, we summarize what is known about this aspect of C. richardii, and discuss how learning more about its natural history could greatly increase our understanding of the evolution of land plants.
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Source data for Figure 2 (Range map of Ceratopteris) can be found in the file cer_locations.csv in https://github.com/sylviakinosian/ceratopteris-map (previously published in Kinosian et al., 2020a, doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106938 ), and in Ceratopteris Brongn. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei (accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-10-4).
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GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist DatasetGBIF.org; https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei.
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National Science Foundation (DEB-1911459)
- Paul G Wolf
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2022, Kinosian & Wolf
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The Natural History of Model Organisms: The biology of C. richardii as a tool to understand plant evolution
eLife 11:e75019.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75019
