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Record W4414394134 · doi:10.1038/s41588-025-02325-9

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants

2025· article· en· W4414394134 on OpenAlexaff
Shanshan Dong, Sibo Wang, Linzhou Li, Yu Jin, Yongxia Zhang, Jia‐Yu Xue, Hengchi Chen, Jianchao Ma, Yuying Zeng, Yuqing Cai, Wei Huang, Xuping Zhou, Jiayi Wu, Jianyou Li, Yifeng Yao, Ruoyang Hu, Tao Zhao, Juan Carlos Villarreal, Léon Dirick, Li Liu, Michael S. Ignatov, Minghui Jin, Jue Ruan, Yikun He, Haifeng Wang, Bo Xu, Ricardo Rozzi, Jill Wegrzyn, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, Karen S. Renzaglia, Hongfeng Chen, Lı Zhang, Shouzhou Zhang, Roy Mackenzie, Javier E. Moreno, Michael Melkonian, Tong Wei, Ying Gu, Xun Xu, Stefan A. Rensing, Jinling Huang, Manyuan Long, Bernard Goffinet, John L. Bowman, Yves Van de Peer, Huan Liu, Yang Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Genetics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBryophyte Studies and Records
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBryophyteHorizontal gene transferGeneGene familyGenetic diversityExtant taxonVascular plant

Abstract

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After 500 million years of evolution, extant land plants compose the following two sister groups: the bryophytes and the vascular plants. Despite their small size and simple structure, bryophytes thrive in a wide variety of habitats, including extreme conditions. However, the genetic basis for their ecological adaptability and long-term survival is not well understood. A comprehensive super-pangenome analysis, incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes, reveals that bryophytes possess a substantially greater diversity of gene families than vascular plants. This includes a higher number of unique and lineage-specific gene families, originating from extensive new gene formation and continuous horizontal transfer of microbial genes over their long evolutionary history. The evolution of bryophytes' rich and diverse genetic toolkit, which includes new physiological innovations like unique immune receptors, likely facilitated their spread across different biomes. These newly sequenced bryophyte genomes offer a valuable resource for exploring alternative evolutionary strategies for terrestrial success.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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