Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

The origin of animal multicellularity and cell differentiation

T Brunet, N King - Developmental cell, 2017 - cell.com
Over 600 million years ago, animals evolved from a unicellular or colonial organism whose
cell (s) captured bacteria with a collar complex, a flagellum surrounded by a microvillar …

A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

Y Li, JL Steenwyk, Y Chang, Y Wang, TY James… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Phylogenomic studies using genome-scale amounts of data have greatly improved
understanding of the tree of life. Despite the diversity, ecological significance, and …

High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses

L Tedersoo, S Sánchez-Ramírez, U Koljalg, M Bahram… - Fungal diversity, 2018 - Springer
High-throughput sequencing studies generate vast amounts of taxonomic data. Evolutionary
ecological hypotheses of the recovered taxa and Species Hypotheses are difficult to test due …

Fungal diversity notes 1277–1386: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa

HS Yuan, X Lu, YC Dai, KD Hyde, YH Kan, I Kušan… - Fungal Diversity, 2020 - Springer
This is the twelfth contribution to the Fungal Diversity Notes series on fungal taxonomy,
based on materials collected from many countries which were examined and described …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi

E Ocaña-Pallarès, TA Williams, D López-Escardó… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same
eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta,. Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic …

The origin of Metazoa: a unicellular perspective

A Sebé-Pedrós, BM Degnan, I Ruiz-Trillo - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
The first animals evolved from an unknown single-celled ancestor in the Precambrian
period. Recently, the identification and characterization of the genomic and cellular traits of …

The origin of animals: an ancestral reconstruction of the unicellular-to-multicellular transition

N Ros-Rocher, A Pérez-Posada, MM Leger… - Open …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor, transitioning from a unicellular lifestyle
to a coordinated multicellular entity, remains a fascinating question. Key events in this …

The origin of metazoan multicellularity: a potential microbial black swan event

I Ruiz-Trillo, K Kin, E Casacuberta - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The emergence of animals from their unicellular ancestors is a major evolutionary event.
Thanks to the study of diverse close unicellular relatives of animals, we now have a better …

Phylogenomics of Lophotrochozoa with consideration of systematic error

KM Kocot, TH Struck, J Merkel, DS Waits… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomic studies have improved understanding of deep metazoan phylogeny and
show promise for resolving incongruences among analyses based on limited numbers of …