{"id":229398,"date":"2017-01-06T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=229398"},"modified":"2017-01-06T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:33:32","slug":"bryophytes-in-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/bryophytes-in-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryophytes in amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_229400\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-229400\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecnociencia_01_290.jpg\" alt=\"Rarity: 52-million-year-old leaves of moss found in India\" width=\"290\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecnociencia_01_290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecnociencia_01_290-120x193.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecnociencia_01_290-250x402.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Heinrichs, J. <em>et al<\/em>. PLOS One<\/span>Rarity: 52-million-year-old leaves of moss found in India<span class=\"media-credits\">Heinrichs, J. <em>et al<\/em>. PLOS One<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the Cambay region of northwestern India, amber\u2014fossilized tree resin\u2014has been found to contain preserved ants, bees and other insects tens of millions of years old. Now, analyses of other amber samples from Cambay have revealed hepaticas and mosses\u2014plants of the bryophyte group, one of the first plants to occupy the Earth. The fragments of leaves and stems are estimated to be 52 million years old, from the time when forests of angiosperms\u2014flowering and fruit-bearing plants\u2014began to form (<em>PLOS One<\/em>, May 31, 2016). Researchers found well-preserved parts of a hepatica in amber, which enabled them to describe a new species named\u00a0<em>Microlejeunea nyiahae<\/em>. It now becomes the oldest representative of the Lejeuneaceae family, the most diversified of the hepaticas. Botanists from Germany, Malaysia, Australia, Sweden, Hungary, India, the United States and Brazil\u2014Denilson Peralta of the Botanical Institute of S\u00e3o Paulo (IBt)\u2014had a part in describing this new extinct species of bryophyte. The discovery broadens our understanding of the processes undergone by species in this plant group and suggests that other unknown creatures could still be found in Indian amber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A well-preserved parts of leaves enabled researchers to describe a new species","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[206,213,224],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-229398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-biodiversity","tag-botany","tag-ecology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229398"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=229398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}