Phylogenomics supports a Cenozoic rediversification of the "living fossil" Isoetes
D. Wood, G. Besnard, D. J. Beerling, C. P. Osborne, P.-A. Christin
The paper uses genomic data and fossil records to date the origin of extant Isoetes species, finding their diversification occurred in the mid-Paleogene, not the Triassic.
bioRxiv · Dec 23, 2019Evolutionary Biology