Biology 3484A/B Lecture Notes - Jelly Fungus, Opisthokont, Hypha
24 Dec 2012
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Fungi eukaryote phylogeny: we are focusing on the unikots clade, the main groups of which are fungi and animals. Opisthokonta is a monophyletic group and is a branch of the unikots. The monophylya of opisthokonta is strongly supported by molecular, morphological, and other data. The first keys papers on this were in 1993 baldauf and palmer, wainwright et al. Amoebozoa (amoebae, slime molds) are another group of unikots, but we will not be discussing them. Fungi and animals are more closely related to one another than either are to plants. The work of woese et al. put an end to the use of the old 5 kingdom classification. Evolution of fungi: there is very little fossil evidence of fungi. During the ordovician period (450mya) fungi had a major role in the colonization of land. There is fossil evidence of terrestrial mycorrhizal fungi from the devonian period (400mya).
