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New home for tiny aquatics

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A shake-up of current thinking about the evolution of the angiosperms — the flowering plants — is a consequence of the relocation of a hitherto obscure branch on the angiosperm evolutionary tree.

Many new constellations in the angiosperm evolutionary tree have come to light as relationships within the flowering plants have been explored using molecular analyses1,2. Some of these changes were not unexpected. But others have resulted in fundamental reinterpretations of angiosperm evolution3,4.

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Figure 1: A new branch near the root of the angiosperm evolutionary tree.
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  1. Else Marie Friis is in the Department of Palaeobotany, The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. elsemarie.friis@nrm.se,

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  2. Peter Crane is in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. pcrane@geosci.uchicago.edu,

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