The
evolution of branch patterning in mosses.
Lateral branching
systems have undergone 450 million years of independent evolution in flowering
plant sporophytes and bryophyte gametophytes, yet the mechanisms underpinning
convergent branching morphologies are unknown.
Yoan aims to
identify the mechanisms that pattern branching in mosses and determine how patterns
changed during moss diversification using computational modelling and
morphological character mapping.
Yoan has
been awarded a British Bryological Society Bequest Grant to support this work
in a new collaboration with Silvia Pressel and Jeff Duckett (NHM).
Congratulations Yoan!
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