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. 2008 Apr 22;8:45. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-45

Figure 6.

Figure 6

The evolution of the MIP superfamily in plants. A schematic drawing of a likely scenario for the evolution of the MIP superfamily in plants. The ancestral plant is proposed to have had all seven subfamilies of MIPs found in extant mosses. The GIP and HIP were lost during the evolution of higher plants and subsequently the XIP subfamily was lost in monocots.