"Ferns" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Seedless nonflowering plants of the class Filicinae. They reproduce by spores that appear as dots on the underside of feathery fronds. In earlier classifications the Pteridophyta included the club mosses, horsetails, ferns, and various fossil groups. In more recent classifications, pteridophytes and spermatophytes (seed-bearing plants) are classified in the Subkingdom TRACHEOPHYTA (also known as Tracheophyta).
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D029624
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.940.800.575.912.063
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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ferns" by people in Profiles.
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Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants. Nat Commun. 2024 May 24; 15(1):4392.
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An exquisitely preserved filmy fern (Hymenophyllaceae) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Am J Bot. 2017 09; 104(9):1370-1381.
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Early Cretaceous Umkomasia from Mongolia: implications for homology of corystosperm cupules. New Phytol. 2016 06; 210(4):1418-29.
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Genome erosion in a nitrogen-fixing vertically transmitted endosymbiotic multicellular cyanobacterium. PLoS One. 2010 Jul 08; 5(7):e11486.