[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota

LJ Galindo, P López-García, G Torruella… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Compared to multicellular fungi and unicellular yeasts, unicellular fungi with free-living
flagellated stages (zoospores) remain poorly known and their phylogenetic position is often …

A combined microscopy and single-cell sequencing approach reveals the ecology, morphology, and phylogeny of uncultured lineages of zoosporic fungi

K Seto, DR Simmons, CA Quandt, T Frenken, AC Dirks… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Environmental DNA analyses of fungal communities typically reveal a much larger diversity
than can be ascribed to known species. Much of this hidden diversity lies within undescribed …

Diploid-dominant life cycles characterize the early evolution of Fungi

KR Amses, DR Simmons… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Most of the described species in kingdom Fungi are contained in two phyla, the Ascomycota
and the Basidiomycota (subkingdom Dikarya). As a result, our understanding of the biology …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative genomics reveals the origin of fungal hyphae and multicellularity

E Kiss, B Hegedüs, M Virágh, T Varga… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Hyphae represent a hallmark structure of multicellular fungi. The evolutionary origins of
hyphae and of the underlying genes are, however, hardly known. By systematically …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic insights into the early diversification of fungi

JFH Strassert, MT Monaghan - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Phylogenomic analyses have boosted our understanding of the evolutionary trajectories of
all living forms by providing continuous improvements to the tree of life. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Within …

Fungal evolution: diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny of the Fungi

MA Naranjo‐Ortiz, T Gabaldón - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal kingdom comprises a hyperdiverse clade of heterotrophic eukaryotes
characterized by the presence of a chitinous cell wall, the loss of phagotrophic capabilities …

[HTML][HTML] Genomes of fungi and relatives reveal delayed loss of ancestral gene families and evolution of key fungal traits

Z Merényi, K Krizsán, N Sahu, XB Liu, B Bálint… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Fungi are ecologically important heterotrophs that have radiated into most niches on Earth
and fulfil key ecological services. Despite intense interest in their origins, major genomic …

Phylogenetic relationships within the Opisthokonta based on phylogenomic analyses of conserved single-copy protein domains

G Torruella, R Derelle, J Paps, BF Lang… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Many of the eukaryotic phylogenomic analyses published to date were based on alignments
of hundreds to thousands of genes. Frequently, in such analyses, the most realistic …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses confirm Olpidium as the closest living zoosporic fungus to the non-flagellated, terrestrial fungi

Y Chang, DA Rochon, S Sekimoto, Y Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The zoosporic obligate endoparasites, Olpidium, hold a pivotal position to the reconstruction
of the flagellum loss in fungi, one of the key morphological transitions associated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Shared signatures of parasitism and phylogenomics unite Cryptomycota and microsporidia

TY James, A Pelin, L Bonen, S Ahrendt, D Sain… - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
Fungi grow within their food, externally digesting it and absorbing nutrients across a
semirigid chitinous cell wall. Members of the new phylum Cryptomycota were proposed to …