# Land plants' closest algal relatives evolved multicellular growth repeatedly, genetic analysis suggests

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- Published: 2026-11-05T23:50:01+00:00
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What did the algae that gave rise to the first land plants look like? A research team led by the University of Göttingen and including the universities of Maastricht and Innsbruck and Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales has now taken a detailed look at one of the most important groups for answering this question: the Zygnematophyceae, the closest living algal relatives of land plants. These inclu

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