To the Origin of Fungi: Analysis of MFS Transporters of First Assembled Aphelidium Genome Highlights Dissimilarity of Osmotrophic Abilities between Aphelida and Fungi.

ABSTRACT: Aphelids are a holomycotan group, represented exclusively by parasitoids infecting algae. They form a sister lineage to Fungi in the phylogenetic tree and represent a key group for reconstruction of the evolution of Holomycota and for analysis of the origin of Fungi. The newly assembled genome of Aphelidium insullamus (Holomycota, Aphelida) with a total length of 18.9 Mb, 7820 protein-coding genes and a GC percentage of 52.05% was obtained by a hybrid assembly based on Oxford Nanopore long reads and Illumina paired reads. In order to trace the origin and the evolution of fungal osmotrophy and its presence or absence in Aphelida, we analyzed the set of main fungal transmembrane transporters, which are proteins of the Major Facilitator superfamily (MFS), in the predicted aphelid prote

SUBMITTER: Pozdnyakov IR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10608142 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature