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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

New ovulate cupule further informs the relationships among early seed plants and their adaptation to wind pollination.

Bing-Xin Li, Pu Huang, Le Liu, Jia-Shu Wang, Karl Niklas, De-Ming Wang, Jin-Zhuang Xue

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Early evolutionary history of the seed.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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7 authors.

Bing-Xin LiThe Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Pu HuangState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-4685-9243
Le LiuSchool of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
Jia-Shu WangLaboratory of Geo-specimens Study and Testing, Geological Museum of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Karl NiklasSchool of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
De-Ming WangThe Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Jin-Zhuang XueThe Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-4397-4641

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The earliest seed plants occurred in the Late Devonian (Famennian). However, why and how they rapidly diversified remain long-standing mysteries. We investigated the early evolution of seed plants based on a new ovule and evaluated wind pollination performance of the earliest cupulate ovules by using computational fluid dynamics simulations.

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Biological EvolutionFossilsOvulePollinationChinaSeedsWindanemophilycomputational fluid dynamics simulationcupuleDevonianseed plantswind pollination

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PMID40132630
PMCPMC11936685

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