Deserts are not usually considered biodiversity hotspots, but desert microbiotic crust
communities exhibit a rich diversity of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic life forms. Like many …

Familiar examples of green algae (Chlorophyta) on land include those that participate in
symbiotic associations with fungi, forming lichens (eg, Coccomyxa, Myrmecia, Stichococcus …

Microscopic, unicellular, free-living green algae are found in desert microbiotic crusts
worldwide. Although morphologically simple, green algae in desert crusts have recently …

Green algae are present in desert soils as components of microbiotic communities that also
include cyanobacteria and other prokaryotes, lichens, nonlichenized fungi, invertebrates …

Life on Earth as we know it would not be possible without the evolution of plants, and without
the transition of plants to live on land. Land plants (also known as embryophytes) are a …

Green plants, broadly defined as green algae and the land plants (together, Viridiplantae),
constitute the primary eukaryotic lineage that successfully colonized Earth's emergent …

The green plants (Viridiplantae) are an ancient group of eukaryotes comprising two main
clades: the Chlorophyta, which includes a wide diversity of green algae and the …

The green lineage (Viridiplantae) comprises the green algae and their descendants the land
plants, and is one of the major groups of oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes. Current …

Over the past two decades, molecular phylogenetic data have allowed evaluations of
hypotheses on the evolution of green algae based on vegetative morphological and …

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 …