{"id":181292,"date":"2024-01-24T12:29:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/complex-green-organisms-emerged-a-billion-years-ago-says-new-research"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:29:26","slug":"complex-green-organisms-emerged-a-billion-years-ago-says-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/complex-green-organisms-emerged-a-billion-years-ago-says-new-research","title":{"rendered":"Complex green organisms emerged a billion years ago, says new research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/complex-green-organisms-emerged-a-billion-years-ago-says-new-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists led by the University of G\u00f6ttingen has taken a deep dive into the evolutionary history of morphological complexity in streptophytes, which include land plants and many green algae.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s research allowed them to go back in time to investigate lineages that emerged long before land plants existed. Their results revise the understanding of the relationships of a group of filamentous algal land colonizers much older than land plants. Using modern gene sequencing data, researchers pinpoint the emergence of multicellularity to almost a billion years ago. The results were <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0960982223017700\">published<\/a> in the journal Current Biology.<\/p>\n<p>The study focused on Klebsormidiophyceae, a class of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/green+algae\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">green algae<\/a> known for its ability to colonize diverse habitats worldwide. The team of researchers conducted extensive sampling, investigating habitats ranging from streams, rivers, and lake shores to bogs, soil, natural rocks, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tree+bark\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tree bark<\/a>, acidic post-mining sites, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sand+dunes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sand dunes<\/a>, urban walls, and building fa\u00e7ades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists led by the University of G\u00f6ttingen has taken a deep dive into the evolutionary history of morphological complexity in streptophytes, which include land plants and many green algae. The team\u2019s research allowed them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}