Lichen-like symbiosis 600 million years ago

被引：187
作者：
Yuan, XL
Xiao, SH [1 ]
Taylor, TN
机构：
[1] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Dept Geosci, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[2] Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Kansas, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
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SCIENCE | 2005年 / 308卷 / 5724期
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D O I：
10.1126/science.1111347
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
The fossil record of fungi and lichens is scarce. Here we report the discovery of lichen-like fossils, involving filamentous hyphae closely associated with coccoidal cyanobacteria or algae, preserved in marine phosphorite of the Doushantuo Formation (between 551 and 635 million years old) at Weng'an, South China. These fossils indicate that fungi developed symbiotic partnerships with photoautotrophs before the evolution of vascular plants.
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