A genome Tree of Life for the Fungi kingdom.

ABSTRACT: Fungi belong to one of the largest and most diverse kingdoms of living organisms. The evolutionary kinship within a fungal population has so far been inferred mostly from the gene-information-based trees ("gene trees"), constructed commonly based on the degree of differences of proteins or DNA sequences of a small number of highly conserved genes common among the population by a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) method. Since each gene evolves under different evolutionary pressure and time scale, it has been known that one gene tree for a population may differ from other gene trees for the same population depending on the subjective selection of the genes. Within the last decade, a large number of whole-genome sequences of fungi have become publicly available, which represent, at present,

SUBMITTER: Choi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5584464 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature