# s-evol: strange seaweed

<< “People  have  always  assumed  that within  the  green-plant  lineage,  all  the  early  branches  were  unicellular,”  says Frederik  Leliaert,  an  evolutionary  biologist  at  Ghent  University  in  Belgium.  “It  is  quite  surprising  that  among those,  a  macroscopic  seaweed  pops  up.” >>

Emma  Marris. Strange  seaweed  rewrites  history  of  green  plants. Ancient  alga  developed  large  size  and  complex  structure  independently  of  other  plants. 09  May  2016.

http://www.nature.com/news/strange-seaweed-rewrites-history-of-green-plants-1.19863?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

Frederik Leliaert,  Ana Tronholm, et al. Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses revealthe deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class.nov. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 25367 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep25367. 09  May 2016

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep25367