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The genome sequence of the marine flowering plant eelgrass (Zostera marina) sheds light on how marine algae evolved into land plants before moving back to the sea. See Letter p.331

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Figure 1: Eelgrass ecosystems.

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  1. Susan L. Williams is at the Bodega Marine Laboratory and Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, Bodega Bay, California 94923, USA.,

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