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Bostrychia moritziana’s triphasic life cycle is governed by discrete, genome-clustered regulatory modules that coordinate development across generations and reproductive cell types.
- Why it matters: The origins of florideophyte triphasy are unresolved, limiting understanding of how complex multicellular life cycles evolve and how developmental programs are reorganized.
- What they did: The team built a comprehensive transcriptomic atlas for Bostrychia and used evolutionary transcriptomics to map regulatory modules and compare ancestral versus lineage-specific gene integration.
- The result: Cystocarp formation involves extensive, coordinated post-fertilisation reprogramming of zygote-derived carposporophyte and maternal tissue, supporting stepwise elaboration of ancestral developmental programs.
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