Species

Selaginella moellendorffii

[ Viridiplantae | Streptophyta | Streptophytina | . . .
. . . | Selaginellales | Selaginellaceae | Selaginella ]

Courtesy of Jody Banks, Purdue University

Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Viridiplantae | Streptophyta | Streptophytina | Embryophyta | Tracheophyta | Lycopodiopsida | Selaginellales | Selaginellaceae | Selaginella Synonym: Selaginella moellendorffii Hieron., Selaginella moellendorfii Comment: Selaginella moellendorfii is a non flowering vascular plant belonging to the family Selaginellaceae and class Lycopsida. Members of this class are ancient group of plants that fall between the vascular and nonvascular plants in the evolutionary tree. They are thought to have emerged before the evolution of leaves and roots in vascular plants.<br /><br />Like fern, S. moellendorfii produces spores. It is heterosporous producing two kinds of spores, megaspores and microspores that give rise to the female and male gametophytes, respectively. They are born on the same strobilis, with microsporangia at the bottom. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (88036) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: DOE Joint Genome Institute: Selaginella moellendorffii GenBank - NIH genetic sequence database: GenBank species TBLASTN GenBank - NIH genetic sequence database: GenBank species TBLASTN WGS Phytozome: Selaginella moellendorfii (Spikemoss) Publications: Banks JA, Nishiyama T, Hasebe M et. al. (2011) The Selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants. Science 332, 960-963. 10.1126/science.1203810 Weng JK, Tanurdzic M, Chapple C (2005) Functional analysis and comparative genomics of expressed sequence tags from the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii. BMC Genomics 6, 85. 10.1186/1471-2164-6-85 Genome files DOE Joint Genome Institute Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Supercontigs v 1.0.0 2007-12-20 7 45.2 208.8 768 1749 - GenBank - NIH genetic sequence database Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Contigs v 1.0.0 2010-01-22 7 45.2 208.5 5155 - 119 Supercontigs v 1.0.0 2010-01-22 7 45.2 208.5 758 - 1749 Phytozome Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Supercontigs v 1.0.0