<i>Marchantia polymorpha thallus</i> in the Vegetative Form (IMAGE)

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<i>Marchantia polymorpha thallus</i> in the Vegetative Form

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This is a Marchantia polymorpha thallus in the vegetative form. Cup-shaped structures on the surface are gemma cups (cupules), reproductive organs producing asexual propagules (gemmae). The image complements a Cell paper published October 5, 2017 in which an international team that included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute analyzed the genome sequence of the common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) to identify genes and gene families that were deemed crucial to plant evolution and have been conserved over millions of years and across plant lineages.

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Photograph by Shohei Yamaoka, Kyoto University

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