Sentences with phrase «angiosperms by»

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But about 100 million years ago, newer species of angiosperms had doubled, tripled, and, ultimately, increased by 10-fold the number of leaf veins, the team reported online last week in Ecology Letters.

The study appearing Sunday (Dec. 22) in the journal Nature and co-authored by University of Florida scientists shows many angiosperms, or flowering plants, evolved mechanisms to cope with freezing temperatures as they radiated into nearly every climate during pre-historic times.

Thus, while England's native flora was largely scraped away by glaciers, in the Hengduans a variety of plants flourished — including angiosperms, such as the Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae, which originated in the Cretaceous Period.

We show the utility of this framework by focusing on a clade in the montane angiosperm genus Heuchera, noteworthy in that it experienced ancient introgression from circumboreally distributed species of Mitella, lineages now ~ 1300 km disjunct.

Angiosperms are seed - producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies (derived characteristics).