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Evo-devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature.
Alexander J Hetherington
Published: 202510.1016/j.cub.2025.10.074
Abstract
Vascular architecture is highly diverse in ferns. A new study demonstrates that this diversity results from co-variation between leaf and vascular development. This reaffirms the role of developmental covariation as a generator of diversity, not a co…
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