title: Are the genomes of royal ferns really frozen in time? Evidence for coinciding genome stability and limited evolvability in the royal ferns.
authors: Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
authors: Harald
authors: H
authors: Schneider
authors: Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairylake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518004, P. R. China.
authors: Hongmei
authors: H
authors: Liu
authors: Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Clark
authors: Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW8 3DS, UK.
authors: Oriane
authors: O
authors: Hidalgo
authors: Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW8 3DS, UK.
authors: Jaume
authors: J
authors: Pellicer
authors: Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairylake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518004, P. R. China.
authors: Shouzhou
authors: S
authors: Zhang
authors: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK.
authors: Laura J
authors: LJ
authors: Kelly
authors: Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW8 3DS, UK.
authors: Michael F
authors: MF
authors: Fay
authors: Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW8 3DS, UK.
authors: Ilia J
authors: IJ
authors: Leitch
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D029624:Ferns / Q000235:genetics*; D005580:Fossils; D018745:Genome, Plant
keywords: Osmundaceae; diversification; evolutionary capacity; evolutionary stasis; fossil record; genome evolution; genome size
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