Hilary A. McManus

TL;DR: This revision of the classification of eukaryotes retains an emphasis on the protists and incorporates changes since 2005 that have resolved nodes and branches in phylogenetic trees.

TL;DR: These new data allowed testing of the recent taxonomic revisions of the family that split Pediastrum into five genera and supported previous indications that the P. duplex Meyen 1829 morphotype is nonmonophyletic and resolved some previously ambiguous relationships recovered in earlier phylogenetic estimations using fewer isolates.

TL;DR: Seed plants have the best developed sexual reproduction system that can be matched only by mammals among eukaryotes, and Hornworts and lycophytes represent critical extant transitional groups in the change from the gametophyte to the sporophyte as the independent free‐living generation.

TL;DR: The discovery of a dominant Glossopteris flora, including petrified leaf fragments, Vertebraria and Araucarioxylon-type wood, along with the absence of Dicroidium, suggests a latest Permian age as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Using epifluorescent and histochemical techniques, anatomical differences in the shoot organs of Typha latifolia, T. angustifolia and T. glauca were examined and the rhizomes and leaf sheaths were similar among the species and all lacked the epidermal thickenings found in the lamina.