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Anne-Marie Aucour et al. (2009): Insights into preservation of fossil plant cuticles using thermally assisted hydrolysis methylation. Abstract, Organic Geochemistry, 40: 784-794.
F. A. Bazzaz, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: Plant biology in the future. PNAS, May 8, 2001, vol. 98, no. 10; p.5441-5445.
Michael Bennett and Ilia Leitch, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Plant DNA C-values Database. The Plant DNA C-values Database currently contains data for 5150 different plant species. It combines data from the Angiosperm DNA C-values Database (C-values are the DNA amount in the unreplicated gametic nucleus of an organism), Gymnosperm, Pteridophyte, and Bryophyte DNA C-values Database, together with the addition of the Algae DNA C-values database.
Sylvain Bernard et al. (2010): Multiscale characterization of pyritized plant tissues in blueschist facies metamorphic rocks. Abstract, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74: 5054-5068.
Michael Bernstein, Washington and New Orleans, March 21-27, 2003: (American Chemical Society, EurekAlert): Scientists find evidence for crucial root in the history of plant evolution.
D.E.G. Briggs (1999): Molecular taphonomy of animal and plant cuticles: selective preservation and diagenesis. PDF file, Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 354: 7-17. See also here.
Brocks, J.J., et al. 1999: Archaean molecular fossils and the early rise of eukaryotes. Science 285: 1033-1036.
Margaret E. Collinson (2011): Molecular Taphonomy of Plant Organic Skeletons. Abstract, Aims & Scope Topics in Geobiology Book Series, 32: 223-247.
J.A. D´Angelo et al. (2011): Chemometric analysis of functional groups in fossil remains of the Dicroidium flora (Cacheuta, Mendoza, Argentina): Implications for kerogen formation. In PDF.
Michael J. Donoghue and James A. Doyle (2000): Seed plant phylogeny: Demise of the anthophyte hypothesis? Current Biology, 10: R106-R109.
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Molecular plant systematics.
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham,
Surrey, UK: Research activities,
Molecular taphonomy, and
Molecular Palaeobotany.
European Asssociation of Organic Geochemistry
W.E. Friedman et al. (2004): The evolution of plant development. PDF file, American Journal of Botany 91: 1726-1741.
William Friedman et al., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder: Molecular and Organismal Research in Plant History, MORPH. MORPH, an NSF research coordination network, fosters cross-disciplinary interactions between organismic and molecular plant biologists studying the evolution of morphological diversity to promote a modern synthesis in plant evolutionary developmental biology. Go to: Publications.
The Geological Society of London: Geology News, A bit of the old oil may solve Darwin’s abominable mystery.
Linda E. Graham, Martha E. Cook, and James S. Busse: The origin of plants: Body plan changes contributing to a major evolutionary radiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 97, Issue 9, 4535-4540, April 25, 2000.
Guido Grimm, Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm:
Cladistic analyses of fossil and recent Cycadales
based on morphological and molecular data. See also
here (abstract), and
there (in German).
Guido Grimm, Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm: Molekulare Paläontologie. Brief introduction (in German).
NEAL S. GUPTA and RICHARD D. PANCOST: Biomolecular and Physical Taphonomy of Angiosperm Leaf During Early Decay: Implications for Fossilization. Abstract, Palaios 2004; v. 19; no. 5; p. 428-440.
Y. Hautevelle et al. (2006): Confined pyrolysis of extant land plants: A contribution to palaeochemotaxonomy. In PDF, Organic Geochemistry, 37: 1546-1561.
Yann Hauteville et al. (2005):
Use
of paleochemotaxonomy for tracing
paleoflora and paleoclimatic changes
during Jurassic. See also:
Determination
of the molecular signature of fossil conifers by experimental palaeochemotaxonomy.
Contribution to palaeofloristic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions.
Powerpoint presentations.
Barbara W. Heavers, Jane Y. Meneray, Jane E. Obbink, and Harry J. Wolf: Molecular Evolution in Plants.
Heckman, D.S., et al. 2001: Molecular evidence for the early colonization of land by fungi and plants. Science 293: 1129-1133.
A.H. Jahren and N.C. Arens (2009): Prediction of atmospheric δ13CO2 using plant cuticle isolated from fluvial sediment: tests across a gradient in salt content. PDF file, Palaios, 24, 394-401.
A.H. Jahren, Johns Hopkins University: The carbon stable isotope composition of pollen. The d13C value of plant tissue is increasingly used to infer environmental and ecological conditions in modern and ancient environments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2004, 132(3-4), 291-313. See also here.
Keith Karoly, Reed College Biology Department, Portland, OR: Contemporary Topics in Biology - Molecular Genetic Analysis of Plant Evolution. A range of online articles. Go to: Molecular clocks and plant evolution.
Andrew H. Knoll 1999: Enhanced: A New Molecular Window on Early Life. Science 285: 1025-1026.
M.J. Lockheart et al. (2000): Chemotaxonomic classification of fossil leaves from the Miocene Clarkia lake deposit, Idaho, USA based on n-alkyl lipid distributions and principal component analyses. In PDF, Organic Geochemistry, 31: 1223-1246.
Ana Martín-González et al. (2009): Double fossilization in eukaryotic microorganisms from Lower Cretaceous amber. BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 9.
Patrick T. Martone et al. (2009): Discovery of Lignin in Seaweed Reveals Convergent Evolution of Cell-Wall Architecture. Abstract, Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 2, 169-175. See also here.
Leszek Marynowski et al. (2008): Systematic relationships of the Mesozoic wood genus Xenoxylon: an integrative biomolecular and palaeobotanical approach. PDF file, N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 247: 177-189.
L. Marynowski et al. (2007): Biomolecules preserved in ca. 168 million year old fossil conifer wood. PDF file, Naturwissenschaften, 94: 228-236.
Laurence A. Moran, Dept. of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. See also here. Go to: What Is Evolution? See also here.
Pyrolysis and macromolecular geochemistry group, Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry, Newcastle Research Group (NRG), University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Thanh Thuy NGUYEN TU (Laboratory of Paleobotany and Paleoecology, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), Jiri KVACEK, David ULICNÝ, Hervé BOCHERENS, André MARIOTTI, Jean BROUTIN: Isotope reconstruction of plant palaeoecology: Case study of Cenomanian floras from Bohemia. Abstract.
Karl J. Niklas (1981): The Chemistry of Fossil Plants. Abstract, BioScience, 31: 820-825.
Organic Geochemistry. The official journal of the European Association of Organic Geochemists (by Elsevier).
Wolfgang Oschmann, Christian Dullo, Volker Mosbrugger & Fritz F. Steininger, "PALÄONTOLOGIE IM 21. JAHRHUNDERT". Go to: Molecular Palaeobiology (in German).
K.J. Peterson et al. (2007): Molecular palaeobiology. In PDF, Palaeontology, 50: 775-809.
Imogen Poole and Pim F. van Bergen (2006): Physiognomic and chemical characters in wood as palaeoclimate proxies. PDF file, Plant Ecology, 182: 175-195.
Imogen Poole, Pim F. van Bergen, Johan Kool, Stefan Schouten and David J. Cantrill: Molecular isotopic heterogeneity of fossil organic matter: implications for δ13Cbiomass and δ13Cpalaeoatmosphere proxies. PDF file, Organic Geochemistry 35(11-12) (2004) 1261-1274 (via Virtual Journal Geobiology, volume 3, Issue 9, September 2004, section 2B).
Bruce Runnegar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, (Center for Astrobiology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA: UCLA ESS116 PALEONTOLOGY FALL 2002. Images and schemes. Go to: Molecular evolution and paleontology.
Mary Higby Schweitzer, Department of Microbiology and Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman: Palaeontologia Electronica, Volume 5, Issue 2, (Coquina Press), 2003. Go to Reviews and Previews: THE FUTURE OF MOLECULAR PALEONTOLOGY (also available in PDF).
Mark Shwartz, Stanford Report, April 4, 2001: Geochemists find evidence that flowers may have evolved 250 million years ago.
ScienceDaily: Oily fossils provide clues to the evolution of flowers.
B. Artur Stankiewicz et al. (1998): Chemical preservation of plants and insects in natural resins. PDF file, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 265: 641-647. See also here.
B.A. Stankiewicz et al.: Molecular taphonomy of arthropod and plant cuticles from the Carboniferous of North America: implications for the origin of kerogen. Abstract, Journal of the Geological Society, 1998, vol. 155, no. 3, pp. 453-462.
Alfred E. Szmidt, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden: Molecular evolution of plants. Phylogeny of Eurasian pines based on chloroplast DNA sequences.
Kyle Trostle (2009): Diagenetic History of Fossil Wood from the Paleocene Chickaloon Formation, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. PDF file.
Pim F. van Bergen and Imogen Poole (2002): Stable carbon isotopes of wood: a clue to palaeoclimate? PDF file, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 182: 31-45.
Jing-Ke Weng and Clint Chapple (2010): The origin and evolution of lignin biosynthesis. New Phytologist, 187: 273-285.
Friedrich Widdel and Ralf Rabus (2001): Anaerobic biodegradation of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons. PDF file, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 12: 259-276.
Andrea D. Wolfe, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus: The ISSR Resource Website.
Ewan Wolff, Montana State University Geoscience Education Web Development Team: Advances in Paleontology. Go to: Morphology - the study of form and function in anatomy, and Hot Topics in Paleontology: Histology, Evolution of Development (Evo-Devo), and Biomolecular Markers.
! H.S. Yoon et al. (2004): A molecular timeline for the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes. PDF file, Mol. Biol. Evol., 21: 809-818. See also here.
Michael Zech (2006): The Use of Biomarker and Stable Isotope Analyses in Palaeopedology. Reconstruction of Middle and Late Quaternary Environmental and Climate History, with Examples from Mt. Kilimanjaro, NE Siberia and NE Argentina. PDF file, Dissertation, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
ZINNIKER, D., J.M. MOLDOWAN, J. DAHL, F.J. FAGO, H. LI, L. J. HICKEY,
G. W. ROTHWELL, AND D. W. TAYLOR:
Techniques
and advances in molecular paleobotany:
Methods for evaluating hypotheses of plant evolution and phylogeny by molecular fossils.
Abstract, 1998 Annual Meeting of the
Botanical Society of America
Baltimore.
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