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Evidence for molecular structural variations in the cytoarchitectures of a Jurassic plant
Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Rhodes University.
Sorbonne Paris Cité.
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2227-577X
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2019 (English)In: Geology, ISSN 0091-7613, E-ISSN 1943-2682, Vol. 47, p. 325-329Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

 

In this study, we investigate the molecular structural characteristics of organic remains in various cellular organelles from a 180 Ma Jurassic royal fern belonging to the Osmundaceae family of ferns, and compare their carbon isotopic compositions to a now-living species of royal fern (Osmunda regalis). We discovered molecular structural variations indicated by Raman and infrared spectral parameters obtained from various fossilized cellular organelles. The organic remains preserved in the chromosomes and cell nuclei show marked structural heterogeneities compared to the cell walls during different stages of the cell cycle. The fossil and extant fern have similar δ13C values obtained from bulk samples, supporting evolutionary stasis in this plant lineage and an unchanged metabolic pathway of carbon assimilation since the Jurassic. The organic remains in the cellular organelles of the fossil seem to be less heterogeneous than those in the extant fern, likely due to the preferential preservation of certain cellular compounds during fossilization. Taphonomic processes appear to have diminished the subcellular isotopic heterogeneities. Our research sheds light on the functioning of ancient plant cellular organelles during mitosis, provides insights to the taphonomic processes operating at molecular and isotopic levels, and shows the practicability of in situ techniques in studying the evolution and behaviors of ancient cells.

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Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 2019. Vol. 47, p. 325-329
Keywords [en]
Osmunda, Sweden, Geochemistry, Permineralization
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Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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The changing Earth; Ecosystems and species history
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-3417DOI: 10.1130/G45725.1OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-3417DiVA, id: diva2:1372933
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Swedish Research Council, 2015-04264
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This project is also financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC0309800), the Hundred Talent Program C of China (Y810011BRC), the Swedish Research Council (VR 2015-04264), the Bergen Research Foundation (Norway), the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement 646894), and the Department of Science and Technology–National Research Foundation Centre for Excellence in Palaeosciences at the University of Witwatersrandthe (South Africa). The NordSIM laboratory at the Swedish Museum of Natural History is a Vetenskapsrådet (VR)-funded research infrastructure.

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