Phylogenomic insights into the first multicellular streptophyte
Journal: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Year: 2023

SUMMARY Streptophytes are best known as the clade containing the teeming diversity of embryophytes (land plants) 1–4 . Next to embryophytes are however a range of freshwater and terrestrial algae that bear important information on the emergence of key traits of land plants. Among these, the Klebsormidiophyceae stand out. Thriving in diverse environments—from mundane (ubiquitous occurrence on tree barks and rocks) to extreme (from the Atacama Desert to the Antarctic); Klebsormidiophyceae can exhi