Scientific name: Marchantia polymorpha
Common name(s): common liverwort
Name as shown in Phylogenes: common liverwort
Ploidy: haploid
Description:
M. polymorpha is basal to the most simple and leafy liverwort lineages and its genome is essential for investigating fundamental events in land-plant evolution. It represents a widely distributed common liverwort that has a multicellular haploid gametophyte generation that alternates with a multicellular diploid sporophyte generation.
Reference(s):
Bowman JL, et al. Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome. Cell. 2017 Oct 5;171(2):287-304.e15. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.030.
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