supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB26000000);National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program 2012CB821901);National Natural Science Foundation of China(91514302,91114201)awarded to X.W.;the Key Discipline Construction Program of Hainan Provincial Department of Education in 2017 Marine Geology;the Research to Start Project 2018-Hainan Tropical Ocean University RHDXB201802 awarded to G.H。
Objective Angiosperms are the most diversified plant group in the current world.Studies on angiosperms,especially on their origin,evolution and systematics,are the major tasks and challenges for botanists.An increasin...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26000000);National Natural Science Foundation of China (91514302, 91114201) awarded to X.W.;State Forestry Administration of China (No. 2005–122);Science and Technology Project of Guangdong (No. 2011B060400011);Special Funds for Environmental Projects of Shenzhen (No. 2013-02) awarded to Z. J. L.
The Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of China is famous for its fossils of early angiosperms, and these fossils have shed otherwise unavailable light on the evolution of angiosperms. The seeds in Archaefructus an...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41688103,91514302,91114201) awarded to X.W.;State Forestry Administration of China (No.2005–122);Science and Technology Project of Guangdong (No.2011B060400011);Special Funds for Environmental Projects of Shenzhen (No.2013-02) awarded to Z.J.L.
The Yixian Formation(the Early Cretaceous) of China has yielded a diverse group of early angiosperms, revealing the charm of angiosperms from the formation is far from finishing. Here we report a fossil angiosperm, ...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program 2012CB821901);Team Program of Scientific Innovation and Interdisciplinary Cooperation,Chinese Academy of Sciences(2013-2015);National Natural Science Foundation of China (91114201,41172006) awarded to X.W;State Forestry Administration of China(No.2005-122);Science and Technology Project of Guangdong(No. 2011B060400011);Special Funds for Environmental Projects of Shenzhen(No.2013-02) awarded to Z.J.L.
In contrast to woody habit with secondary growth, truthful herbaceous habit lacking secondary growth is restricted to angiosperms among seed plants. Although angiosperms might have occurred as early as in the Triassic...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB821903);Outstanding Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK 2012049);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91114201)
The Middle Jurassic Daohugou Biota has yielded very rich fossil plants, vertebrates, and inver tebrates. The particularly famous fossil insects are represented by at least 24 orders, revealing one of the most diverse ...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB821903);the Outstanding Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK 2012049);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91114201)
The co-evolution of parasites and their hosts is one of the most interesting scientiic ields within animal evolution.However,the fossil record of parasites is extremely poor because of their special associations with ...