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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Phylogenomic analyses predict sistergroup relationship of nucleariids and Fungi and paraphyly of zygomycetes with significant support
BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume 9, No. 1, Article 272, Year 2009
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Background. Resolving the evolutionary relationships among Fungi remains challenging because of their highly variable evolutionary rates, and lack of a close phylogenetic outgroup. Nucleariida, an enigmatic group of amoeboids, have been proposed to emerge close to the fungal-metazoan divergence and might fulfill this role. Yet, published phylogenies with up to five genes are without compelling statistical support, and genome-level data should be used to resolve this question with confidence. Results. Our analyses with nuclear (118 proteins) and mitochondrial (13 proteins) data now robustly associate Nucleariida and Fungi as neighbors, an assemblage that we term 'Holomycota'. With Nucleariida as an outgroup, we revisit unresolved deep fungal relationships. Conclusion. Our phylogenomic analysis provides significant support for the paraphyly of the traditional taxon Zygomycota, and contradicts a recent proposal to include Mortierella in a phylum Mucoromycotina. We further question the introduction of separate phyla for Glomeromycota and Blastocladiomycota, whose phylogenetic positions relative to other phyla remain unresolved even with genome-level datasets. Our results motivate broad sampling of additional genome sequences from these phyla. © 2009 Liu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Liu, Yu
Canada, Montreal
Robert Cedergren Centre
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Steenkamp, Emma T.
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Brinkmann, Henner
Canada, Montreal
Robert Cedergren Centre
Forget, Lise
Canada, Montreal
Robert Cedergren Centre
Philippe, Hervé
Canada, Montreal
Robert Cedergren Centre
Lang, Bernd Franz
Canada, Montreal
Robert Cedergren Centre
Statistics
Citations: 133
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/1471-2148-9-272
e-ISSN:
14712148
Research Areas
Cancer