Reconstructing the Backbone of the Saccharomycotina Yeast Phylogeny Using Genome-Scale Data.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the phylogenetic relationships among the yeasts of the subphylum Saccharomycotina is a prerequisite for understanding the evolution of their metabolisms and ecological lifestyles. In the last two decades, the use of rDNA and multilocus data sets has greatly advanced our understanding of the yeast phylogeny, but many deep relationships remain unsupported. In contrast, phylogenomic analyses have involved relatively few taxa and lineages that were often selected with limited considerations for covering the breadth of yeast biodiversity. Here we used genome sequence data from 86 publicly available yeast genomes representing nine of the 11 known major lineages and 10 nonyeast fungal outgroups to generate a 1233-gene, 96-taxon data matrix. Species phylogenies reconstructed using tw

SUBMITTER: Shen XX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5144963 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature