Evolution: Divergent trajectories predate the origins of animals and fungi

Dagmar Jirsová; Jeremy G Wideman

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.047

Evolution: Divergent trajectories predate the origins of animals and fungi

Curr Biol. 2022 Nov 7;32(21):R1242-R1244. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.047.

Authors

Dagmar Jirsová¹, Jeremy G Wideman²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.
² Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 36347236
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.047

Abstract

Animals, fungi, and their closest protist relatives comprise the clade Opisthokonta. Although they are comparatively closely related, animals and fungi have diverged greatly from one another. A new study demonstrates that the genomic features that are characteristic of animals and fungi arose even before the origin of these two kingdoms.

MeSH terms

Animals
Eukaryota / genetics
Evolution, Molecular*
Fungi* / genetics
Genomics
Phylogeny