Evolutionary history of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and genomic signatures of obligate symbiosis

Author:

Rosling Anna1,Sahraei Shadi Eshghi1,Khan Faheema Kalsoom1,Desirò Alessandro2,Bryson Abigail2,Mondo Stephen3,Grigoriev Igor3,Bonito Gregory2,Sánchez-García Marisol4

Affiliation:

1. Uppsala University

2. Michigan State University

3. Joint Genome Institute

4. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Abstract

Abstract Background The colonization of land and the diversification of terrestrial plants is intimately linked to the evolutionary history of their symbiotic fungal partners. Extant representatives of these fungal lineages include mutualistic plant symbionts, the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and related ectomycorrhizal fungi in Endogonales, as well as fungi with saprotrophic, pathogenic and endophytic lifestyles. These fungal groups separate into three monophyletic lineages but their evolutionary relationships remain enigmatic confounding ancestral reconstructions. Their taxonomic ranks are currently fluid. Results In this study, we recognize these three monophyletic linages as phyla, and use a balanced taxon sampling and broad taxonomic representation for phylogenomic analysis that rejects a hard polytomy and resolves Glomeromycota as sister to Mucoromycota and Mortierellomycota. Low copy numbers of genes associated with plant cell wall degradation could not be assigned to the transition to a plant symbiotic lifestyle but appears to be an ancestral phylogenetic signal. Glomeromycota have distinct gene content and the lack of fatty acid synthesis genes is specific to this lineage. Further, gene content analysis demonstrates that many genes previously thought to be missing specifically in Glomeromycota are either missing in all analyzed phyla, or in some cases, are actually present in some of the AM fungal lineages analyzed here, e.g. the phosphorus transporter Pho89. Conclusion Based on a broad taxon sampling of fungal genomes we present a well-supported phylogeny for AM fungi and their sister lineages. We show that both cases of evolutionary transitions to mutualistic plant symbiosis happened in a genomic background profoundly different from that known from the emergence of ectomycorrhizal fungi in Dikarya. These results call for further reevaluation of genomic signatures associated with plant symbiosis.

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Research Square Platform LLC

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