REU:  Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution of Coleochaete
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Biologists have speculated for years that modern land plants            must have evolved from some group of aquatic green algae.                       Researchers like Dr. Linda Graham at the University of Wisconsin                have presented morphological and developmental evidence that the                four genera of charophyte algae, Chara, Nitella, Coleochaete, and               Chaetosphaeridium, are most similar to land plants and are likely               the closest living algal relatives of higher plants.  In                        continuing studies of two of these genera, Dr. Graham is                        investigating new featurs of DNA quantity in cell nuclei,                       measuring cell size under varying environmental conditions, and                 testing for the occurrence of specialized compounds (callose and                sporopollenin) common in land plants but rare to absent in most                 algae.  Data from these studies will either corroborate or refute               the idea that charophytes are close to land plants, and will also               provide taxonomic characters aiding in the recognition of species               within the genera Coleochaete and Chaetosphaeridium.
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