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Molecular Evolution of Ascomycete Fungi: Phylogeny and Conflict

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Ascomycete Systematics

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Phylogenetic analysis of 18S ribosomal RNA genes puts Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota in the fungal kingdom. Fungi are part of the terminal eukaryotic radiation, and have animals plus choanogflagellates as closest relatives. Ascomycetes show an early radiation including Taphrina and Schizosaccharomyces, followed by a split leading to either budding yeasts or hyphal forms. Hyphal ascomycetes show a radiation of apothecial and loculoascomycete taxa together with the progenitors of two well-supported classes, Pyrenomycetes and Plectomycetes. Pneumocystis carinii provides an example of how conflicts between phylogenies inferred from morphological and molecular characters can be resolved. Molecular characters support its placement near the divergence of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota and its meiospore characters seem ascomycetous.

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Taylor, J.W., Swann, E.C., Berbee, M.L. (1994). Molecular Evolution of Ascomycete Fungi: Phylogeny and Conflict. In: Hawksworth, D.L. (eds) Ascomycete Systematics. NATO ASI Series, vol 269. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9290-4_17

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