Professor Yun-Hwansu identified the parallel evolution of life sciences of red seaweeds and seed plants
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- 2016-10-25
Professor Yun-Hwansu identified the parallel evolution of life sciences of red seaweeds and seed plants for the first time
"Unveil secrets of the red seaweeds and seed plants evolved from chloroplast"
□ Recent papers which examined the parallel evolution comparing the chloroplast of 50 species of red seaweeds amd existing seed plants over 800 was published in BMC Biology online edition on Sep. 2nd.
□ In this paper, Yun-Hwansu Sungkyunkwan University (Professor of Biological Science, corresponding author) and its affiliated laboratory graduate students Lee-Joonmo (first author), Jo-Chunghyeon, Park-Seungin and undergraduate students Choi-Jiwon, Song-hyeonseok participated, Thesis titled 'Parallel evolution of highly conserved plastid genome architecture in red seaweeds and seed plants’.
□ Green plants including red seaweeds and seed plants each were truly differentiate into red algae and seed plants millions of years ago as one of the sister group of plant origin from a common ancestor. despite of red seaweeds and seed plants’ long evolutionary history and habitat differences, they have only three unique chloroplast structure. This red seaweeds and seed plants differentiated very quickly through successful reproduction method so that they evolved to direction in which the chloroplast structure stabilized. Professor Through these studies, Mr. Yun-Hwansu presented "the evolution of organisms have certain direction even if the process is different“.
□ The study was carried out by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Rural Development Administration and National Research Foundation.