Roussillon
Roussillon , small region and former province, S France, bordering on Spain along the Pyrenees and on the Mediterranean. It is now roughly coextensive with Pyrénées-Orientales dept. Perpignan is the historical capital. Wine, fruit, and olives are the chief products of this fertile and densely populated region, which also has a tourist industry. The area has changed hands many times, from the Romans, who arrived c.121 BC, through the Visigoths, the Arabs, the Carolingians, the Spaniards, the counts of Barcelona, and the kings of Aragón, France, and Majorca. Louis XIII conquered it from Spain in 1642, and French possession was confirmed by the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).
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Sphagnum Beringiense sp. nov. (bryophyta) from Arctic Alaska, Based on Morphological and Molecular Data.(Report)
Magazine article from: Systematic Botany; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Author(s): A. Jonathan Shaw (corresponding author) [1], Richard E Andrus [2], Blanka Shaw [1] The peat mosses ( Sphagnum L.) include some 200-300 species. The genus is found worldwide, but the greatest species richness is in the boreal zone of the Northern Hemisphere where they often dominate
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Interactions between mosses (Bryophyta) and fungi.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Botany; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: A taxonomically diverse suite of fungi interacts with bryophytes as pathogens, parasites, saprobes, and commensals. Necrotrophic pathogens such as Tephrocybe palustris (Peck) Donk and Nectria mnii Dobbeler form patches of moribund gametophytes in otherwise healthy mats of mosses. These
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Phylogeny, Character Evolution, and Biogeography of the Gondwanic Moss Family Hypopterygiaceae (Bryophyta).(Report)
Magazine article from: Systematic Botany; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Author(s): A. Jonathan Shaw (corresponding author) [1], Ingo Holz [2], Cymon J Cox [3], Bernard Goffinet [4] The Hypopterygiaceae are a small family of predominantly southern hemisphere pleurocarpous mosses that occur in humid temperate and tropical forests, where they grow on a variety of
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Moss or moss imposter?
Magazine article from: The American Biology Teacher; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...students will have had three 50-minute lectures on bryophytes, including information on the Hepatophyta, Anthocerophyta and Bryophyta, and will have had one or two 3-hour "traditional" labs examining live specimens and slide material of all three divisions...
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Scientists at University of Oulu describe research in freshwater research.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 8/14/2009; 700+ words
; ...community concordance between aquatic bryophytes and insects in boreal springs." "We sampled bryophytes (Marchantiophyta and Bryophyta), benthic macroinvertebrates and environmental variables in 138 springs in Finland, spanning a latitudinal gradient of...
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A Bryological Assessment of the Flint Woods Preserve, Delaware
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...habitat or substrate were assessed by a two-way contingency table with Fisher's exact test. Thirty-eight species of Bryophyta and Marchantiophyta were found, including four rare species: Dicranum fulvum, Fissidens bushii, Ctenidium malacodes...
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Cytochemical and immunocytochemical studies of the localization of histones and protamine-type proteins in spermatids of Chara vulgaris and Chara tomentosa
Magazine article from: Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...many lower vertebrates and invertebrates [15-17]. In lower plants producing free-moving male gametes which belong to Bryophyta [18] and Pteridophyta [19] protamine-type proteins were also identified. Research on mature spermatozoids of higher...
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The Bryophyte Flora of Jefferson County, Ohio
Magazine article from: Castanea; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT A survey of the bryophyte flora, Anthocerotophyta (hornworts), Marchantiophyta (liverworts), and Bryophyta (mosses) of Jefferson County, Ohio was conducted from 1998 to 2004. Jefferson County (106,416 ha) is located in the...
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A Preliminary Checklist of the Flora of Rotuma with Rotuman Names [1].
Magazine article from: Pacific Science; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of ancient forest have survived. We provide here a list of the taxa identified by ourselves and others from Rotuma in the Bryophyta, Microphyllophyta, Pteridophyta, Coniferophyta, and Anthophyta. ROTUMA IS A GROUP of 10 volcanic islands that was administered...
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A Tiling Microarray Expression Analysis of Rice Chromosome 4 Suggests a Chromosome-Level Regulation of Transcription(W)
Magazine article from: Plant Cell; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...first distinguished from euchromatin cytologically as more intensely staining nuclear material throughout the cell cycle in Bryophyta (Heitz, 1928). For a long time, heterochromatin was considered a junkyard composed of only noncoding DNA and silent transposons...
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Bryophyta
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
Bryophyta A phylum of simple plants possessing no vascular tissue and rudimentary...Anthocerophyta ) and the mosses were classified as a class (Musci) of the Bryophyta. The term `bryophytes' is still used informally to refer to members...
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moss
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...included. Mosses and liverworts together comprise the division Bryophyta , the first green land plants to develop in the process of...and Spanish moss . Mosses are classified in the division Bryophyta, class Bryopsida. Bibliography: See A. J. Grout, Moss...
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Bryophytes
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...evolutionary lineages , today recognized as mosses (phylum Bryophyta), liverworts (phylum Marchantiophyta), and hornworts...MOSSES, LIVERWORTS, AND HORNWORTS Characteristics Mosses (Bryophyta) Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) Hornworts (Anthocerotophyta...
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plant
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...groups: the bryophytes ( liverwort and moss ), division Bryophyta , which have no vascular tissues, and a group consisting of seven divisions of plants that do have vascular tissues. The Bryophyta, like other nonvascular plants, are simple in structure...
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liverwort
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Marchantiopsida. Mosses and liverworts together comprise the division Bryophyta , primitive green land plants (see moss ; plant ); some of...called liverwort. Liverworts are classified in the division Bryophyta, class Marchantiopsida.
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