Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses confirm Olpidium as the closest living zoosporic fungus to the non-flagellated, terrestrial fungi
Y. Chang, D. Rochon, S. Sekimoto, Y. Wang, M. Chovatia, L. Sandor, A. Salamov, I. V. Grigoriev, J. E. Stajich, J. W. Spatafora
The paper uses genome and transcriptome data from Olpidium to analyze its phylogenetic position relative to non-flagellated terrestrial fungi, finding it as the closest zoosporic relative.
bioRxiv · Sep 16, 2020Evolutionary Biology