The aphelid-like phagotrophic origins of fungi
G. Torruella, X. Grau-Bove, D. Moreira, S. A. Karpov, J. Burns, A. Sebe-Pedros, E. Volcker, P. Lopez-Garcia
This study generates transcriptome data for an aphelid and uses phylogenomic analysis to suggest fungi evolved from a phagotrophic opisthosporidian ancestor.
bioRxiv · Aug 17, 2018Evolutionary Biology