#geoubcsic New findings of lower Aptian charophytes from the Southern High Plateaus (Eastern Meseta, Morocco): biostratigraphic and biogeographic significance. Haddoumi, H; Pérez-Cano, J; ... CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 179 [2026] doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106262
January 26, 2026 at 12:22 PM
#geoubcsic New findings of lower Aptian charophytes from the Southern High Plateaus (Eastern Meseta, Morocco): biostratigraphic and biogeographic significance. Haddoumi, H; Pérez-Cano, J; ... CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 179 [2026] doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106262
For more 'underwater meadows': #Charophytes stabilise sediments, improve water quality, and promote biodiversity in #lakes. New research-based recommendations outline various #reintroduction measures and help to select and prioritise the most suitable ones. www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/reco...
Recommendations for reintroducing charophytes
www.igb-berlin.de
January 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
For more 'underwater meadows': #Charophytes stabilise sediments, improve water quality, and promote biodiversity in #lakes. New research-based recommendations outline various #reintroduction measures and help to select and prioritise the most suitable ones. www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/reco...
New #portfolioday post, I'm a palaeontology student (about to start 4th year) and do various detailed illustrations of animals (both extinct and living), landscapes, and technical illustration. Contact for commissions is [email protected]
January 14, 2026 at 12:05 AM
New #portfolioday post, I'm a palaeontology student (about to start 4th year) and do various detailed illustrations of animals (both extinct and living), landscapes, and technical illustration. Contact for commissions is [email protected]
I began to study the colossal meadow, and noticed at the top the most distinct lichens, of which I knew the names, including Iceland moss and several others. Beneath them were algae, from siphons upwards to the Fucus, Palmellacea, and Charophytes.
January 7, 2026 at 9:24 AM
I began to study the colossal meadow, and noticed at the top the most distinct lichens, of which I knew the names, including Iceland moss and several others. Beneath them were algae, from siphons upwards to the Fucus, Palmellacea, and Charophytes.
We tested RAR1 and SGT1 homologs from representative models in streptophytes (charophytes + land plants). Unexpectedly, RAR1 and SGT1 homologs from the model fern Ceratopteris richardii failed to interact outside their own lineage. What is the molecular basis of this specificity?
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We tested RAR1 and SGT1 homologs from representative models in streptophytes (charophytes + land plants). Unexpectedly, RAR1 and SGT1 homologs from the model fern Ceratopteris richardii failed to interact outside their own lineage. What is the molecular basis of this specificity?
📃 Rodrigo MA, et al. Vascular macrophytes versus charophytes: how the macrophyte type and warming affect the sediment microbial community and the production of greenhouse gases. J Environ Manage. 2025 Jun;386:125654. Epub 2025 May 11. PMID: 40354740. 🧪
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
📃 Rodrigo MA, et al. Vascular macrophytes versus charophytes: how the macrophyte type and warming affect the sediment microbial community and the production of greenhouse gases. J Environ Manage. 2025 Jun;386:125654. Epub 2025 May 11. PMID: 40354740. 🧪
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
My last collaboration. Always a pleasure to work with C. Martín Closas and Cretaceous charophytes.
New published manuscript: A refugium for #charophytes during the maximum post-Palaeozoic sea-level highstand in the Turonian of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain)
C. Martín-Closas et al.
Link: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
@cienciesterraub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
C. Martín-Closas et al.
Link: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
@cienciesterraub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My last collaboration. Always a pleasure to work with C. Martín Closas and Cretaceous charophytes.
Plants owe a lot to microbes, not just for growth but for evolution, too! Microbes share genes with plants, which helped them adapt and thrive on land. This exchange has been crucial, especially for ancient plant groups like charophytes and bryophytes, leading to major breakthroughs in plant stru...
Land plant evolution: from microbial interaction to horizontal gene transfer.
Published in Trends in plant science
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Plants owe a lot to microbes, not just for growth but for evolution, too! Microbes share genes with plants, which helped them adapt and thrive on land. This exchange has been crucial, especially for ancient plant groups like charophytes and bryophytes, leading to major breakthroughs in plant stru...
Posting these ones together from when I got really into underwater interestingly lit algae last year. Tiktaalik and eustenopteron. #palaeoart #paleoart
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Posting these ones together from when I got really into underwater interestingly lit algae last year. Tiktaalik and eustenopteron. #palaeoart #paleoart
This has been great: #Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae. With @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @maaikebier.bsky.social Chuck, + more @uni-goettingen.de @watertoland.bsky.social #streptophytes #charophytes #evolution
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This has been great: #Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae. With @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @maaikebier.bsky.social Chuck, + more @uni-goettingen.de @watertoland.bsky.social #streptophytes #charophytes #evolution
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Charophytes are why plants live on land now. They personally chose to stay in ponds forever anyway.🤷♀️
July 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Charophytes are why plants live on land now. They personally chose to stay in ponds forever anyway.🤷♀️
Charophytes (Chara, Coleochaete) are green algae, the closest relatives of plants. They don’t have seeds or stems but can handle drying out a little, which made life on land possible.
July 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Charophytes (Chara, Coleochaete) are green algae, the closest relatives of plants. They don’t have seeds or stems but can handle drying out a little, which made life on land possible.
New published manuscript: A refugium for #charophytes during the maximum post-Palaeozoic sea-level highstand in the Turonian of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain)
C. Martín-Closas et al.
Link: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
@cienciesterraub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
C. Martín-Closas et al.
Link: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
@cienciesterraub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New published manuscript: A refugium for #charophytes during the maximum post-Palaeozoic sea-level highstand in the Turonian of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain)
C. Martín-Closas et al.
Link: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
@cienciesterraub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
C. Martín-Closas et al.
Link: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
@cienciesterraub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
It was a Red letter day for me!
I had confirmed from my recent trip to Porto, the rare stonewort: Nitella dixonii.
It's critically endangered on the provisional Red List of European Charophytes. Last recorded in Portugal in 1938! It was in a track pool downhill from a spring with many nice plants.
I had confirmed from my recent trip to Porto, the rare stonewort: Nitella dixonii.
It's critically endangered on the provisional Red List of European Charophytes. Last recorded in Portugal in 1938! It was in a track pool downhill from a spring with many nice plants.
June 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It was a Red letter day for me!
I had confirmed from my recent trip to Porto, the rare stonewort: Nitella dixonii.
It's critically endangered on the provisional Red List of European Charophytes. Last recorded in Portugal in 1938! It was in a track pool downhill from a spring with many nice plants.
I had confirmed from my recent trip to Porto, the rare stonewort: Nitella dixonii.
It's critically endangered on the provisional Red List of European Charophytes. Last recorded in Portugal in 1938! It was in a track pool downhill from a spring with many nice plants.
#geoubcsic A refugium for charophytes during the maximum post-Palaeozoic sea-level highstand in the Turonian of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). Martín-Closas, C; Albalat, D; ...
GEOLOGICA ACTA 23 [2025] doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2025.23.11
GEOLOGICA ACTA 23 [2025] doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2025.23.11
June 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
#geoubcsic A refugium for charophytes during the maximum post-Palaeozoic sea-level highstand in the Turonian of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). Martín-Closas, C; Albalat, D; ...
GEOLOGICA ACTA 23 [2025] doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2025.23.11
GEOLOGICA ACTA 23 [2025] doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2025.23.11
"Protist Genomics: Key to Understanding Eukaryotic Evolution"
by Alexandra Schoenle & colleagues
"Current genomic methods . . . are poorly suited for protists. Advancing protist genome research requires reevaluating plant- and animal-centric genomic standards."
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
by Alexandra Schoenle & colleagues
"Current genomic methods . . . are poorly suited for protists. Advancing protist genome research requires reevaluating plant- and animal-centric genomic standards."
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
June 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Protist Genomics: Key to Understanding Eukaryotic Evolution"
by Alexandra Schoenle & colleagues
"Current genomic methods . . . are poorly suited for protists. Advancing protist genome research requires reevaluating plant- and animal-centric genomic standards."
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
by Alexandra Schoenle & colleagues
"Current genomic methods . . . are poorly suited for protists. Advancing protist genome research requires reevaluating plant- and animal-centric genomic standards."
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
"Striking similarities in thallus organization between T. miraclensis and present-day Charophyceae suggest remarkably conservative morphological evolution."
Yes, and they still need water - a cow-trough will do provided the water is fresh & alkaline.
Here, Chara vulgaris at Weybread, Suffolk, UK.
Yes, and they still need water - a cow-trough will do provided the water is fresh & alkaline.
Here, Chara vulgaris at Weybread, Suffolk, UK.
May 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Striking similarities in thallus organization between T. miraclensis and present-day Charophyceae suggest remarkably conservative morphological evolution."
Yes, and they still need water - a cow-trough will do provided the water is fresh & alkaline.
Here, Chara vulgaris at Weybread, Suffolk, UK.
Yes, and they still need water - a cow-trough will do provided the water is fresh & alkaline.
Here, Chara vulgaris at Weybread, Suffolk, UK.
La phylogénie nous apprend ainsi que les embryophytes ont une origine unique, que leurs + proches parents sont des algues d’eau douce (charophytes), qu'elles partagent un ensemble de caractères qu’on ne trouve pas chez les charophytes. Les plantes terrestres les + basales sont les bryophytes
April 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
La phylogénie nous apprend ainsi que les embryophytes ont une origine unique, que leurs + proches parents sont des algues d’eau douce (charophytes), qu'elles partagent un ensemble de caractères qu’on ne trouve pas chez les charophytes. Les plantes terrestres les + basales sont les bryophytes
La lignée des plantes terrestres (embryophytes) s’est individualisée au sein d’organismes photosynthétiques aquatiques. Les études phylogénétiques privilégient une origine unique à partir d’algues vertes, les Charophytes, et + particulièrement les Coléochaetales ou les Charales
April 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
La lignée des plantes terrestres (embryophytes) s’est individualisée au sein d’organismes photosynthétiques aquatiques. Les études phylogénétiques privilégient une origine unique à partir d’algues vertes, les Charophytes, et + particulièrement les Coléochaetales ou les Charales
If you look for rare charophytes, you just might find them!
Exciting to see this major range expansion. Here in Michigan we're finding that the charophytes are really under-surveyed as most people (including me, often) don't take the time to ID to species.
#MacrophyteMonday
Exciting to see this major range expansion. Here in Michigan we're finding that the charophytes are really under-surveyed as most people (including me, often) don't take the time to ID to species.
#MacrophyteMonday
Hazel and Ric @stickybeak.bsky.social have made an astounding contribution to the natural history of Rathlin. I just read this blog post about a species of Chara new to Ireland, the nearest known site for which is on the Lizard in Cornwall!
rathlinstickybeak.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/m...
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Move over Pyramidal Bugle, there’s a new star plant on Rathlin: Chara affinis
Pyramidal Bugle is a rare and very localised plant within all of Ireland, occurring on Rathlin and a few sites on the west coast, but not known from anywhere else in NI. But now we have a mysteriou…
rathlinstickybeak.wordpress.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If you look for rare charophytes, you just might find them!
Exciting to see this major range expansion. Here in Michigan we're finding that the charophytes are really under-surveyed as most people (including me, often) don't take the time to ID to species.
#MacrophyteMonday
Exciting to see this major range expansion. Here in Michigan we're finding that the charophytes are really under-surveyed as most people (including me, often) don't take the time to ID to species.
#MacrophyteMonday
Just got my hands on this fantastic new book on #Charophytes of Europe and excited to see the most westerly dot on the distribution map of #Tolypella nidifica was from a snorkel survey i carried out on the Outer Hebrides of Scotland - over 20 years ago 😬
#MacrophyteMonday
#MacrophyteMonday
March 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just got my hands on this fantastic new book on #Charophytes of Europe and excited to see the most westerly dot on the distribution map of #Tolypella nidifica was from a snorkel survey i carried out on the Outer Hebrides of Scotland - over 20 years ago 😬
#MacrophyteMonday
#MacrophyteMonday
our Botanical Society's remit is vascular plants and charophytes, so they have a great group advocating for them!
February 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
our Botanical Society's remit is vascular plants and charophytes, so they have a great group advocating for them!
Last but definitely not least is Janik Marks who takes us down the rabbit 🐇 hole - insights from hornworts and charophytes #nonseedUK24 😃
December 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Last but definitely not least is Janik Marks who takes us down the rabbit 🐇 hole - insights from hornworts and charophytes #nonseedUK24 😃
Looking to move to dry land?
Horizontal transposon transfer may be just the solution you're looking for--if you're a #plant, anyway!
Learn more about the #evolutionary roles of HTT-derived TEs in this new JIPB Brief Communication
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience #evolution
Horizontal transposon transfer may be just the solution you're looking for--if you're a #plant, anyway!
Learn more about the #evolutionary roles of HTT-derived TEs in this new JIPB Brief Communication
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience #evolution
December 3, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Looking to move to dry land?
Horizontal transposon transfer may be just the solution you're looking for--if you're a #plant, anyway!
Learn more about the #evolutionary roles of HTT-derived TEs in this new JIPB Brief Communication
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience #evolution
Horizontal transposon transfer may be just the solution you're looking for--if you're a #plant, anyway!
Learn more about the #evolutionary roles of HTT-derived TEs in this new JIPB Brief Communication
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience #evolution
Ballyhornan coast today with @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social
Calcicolous bryophytes, rocky cliffs and charophytes
Calcicolous bryophytes, rocky cliffs and charophytes
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Ballyhornan coast today with @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social
Calcicolous bryophytes, rocky cliffs and charophytes
Calcicolous bryophytes, rocky cliffs and charophytes