{"id":150940,"date":"2022-11-23T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/genome-studies-uncover-a-new-branch-in-fungal-evolution"},"modified":"2022-11-23T21:25:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:25:19","slug":"genome-studies-uncover-a-new-branch-in-fungal-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/genome-studies-uncover-a-new-branch-in-fungal-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Genome studies uncover a new branch in fungal evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genome-studies-uncover-a-new-branch-in-fungal-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along the fungal family tree have been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a University of Alberta-led research team that used genome sequencing to give these peculiar creatures their own classification home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have any particular feature that you can see with the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/naked+eye\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">naked eye<\/a> where you can say they belong to the same group. But when you go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genome<\/a>, suddenly this emerges,\u201d says Toby Spribille, principal investigator on the project and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to think of these as the platypus and echidna of the fungal world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along the fungal family tree have been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a University of Alberta-led research team that used genome sequencing to give these peculiar creatures their own classification home. \u201cThey don\u2019t have any particular feature that you can see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}