A genome-scale Opisthokonta tree of life: toward phylogenomic resolution of ancient divergences

Author:

Liu HongyueORCID,Steenwyk Jacob L.ORCID,Zhou XiaofanORCID,Schultz Darrin T.ORCID,Kocot Kevin M.ORCID,Shen Xing-XingORCID,Rokas AntonisORCID,Li YuanningORCID

Abstract

AbstractAncient divergences within Opisthokonta—a major lineage that includes organisms in the kingdoms Animalia, Fungi, and their unicellular relatives— remain contentious, hindering investigations of the evolutionary processes that gave rise to two kingdoms and the repeated emergence of iconic phenotypes like multicellularity. Here, we use genome-scale amounts of data to reconstruct the most taxon-rich Opisthokonta tree of life to date (348 species) and place divergences in geologic time, suggesting a Mesoproterozoic origin (∼ 1.11 billion years ago). By dissecting multiple dimensions of phylogenomic error, such as the influence of taxon sampling and model complexity, we found that deep divergences within Holozoa remain unresolved and suggest Pluriformea is either sister to Ichthyosporea and Filozoa (Pluriformea-sister hypothesis) or is monophyletic to Ichthyosporea, forming the Teretosporea lineage (Teretosporea-sister hypothesis). A combination of information theory and sensitivity analyses revealed that the inferred unicellular Holozoa relationships are largely robust to common sources of analytical error, such as insufficient model complexity, and suggest that previous reports likely suffered from insufficient taxon sampling. Our study presents a robust Opisthokonta phylogenomic framework, highlights the challenges in resolving the relationships of unicellular Holozoa, and paves the way for illuminating ancient evolutionary episodes concerning the origin of two kingdoms.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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