Table 3

Comparison between 18S rRNA and RPB gene phylogenies in the topology and statistical support for the major clades.

Major clade

18S rDNA

RPB1+RPB2


Monophyletic Ascomycota

100%, 75% a

100%, 99%

Monophyletic Basidiomycota

100%, 89%

100%, 100%

Monophyletic Dikaryomycota

100%, 89%

100%, 100%

Monophyletic Zygomycota

No (polyphyletic)

100%, 78%

Clade of Asco-, Basidio- and Zygomycota

No b

100%, 84%

Monophyletic Chytridiomycota

No (polyphyletic)

No (paraphyletic)

Monophyletic kingdom Fungi

72%, 71%

100%, 91%

Microsporidia sister to Fungi

Noc

100%, 99%


a. The numbers are the values of Bayesian posterior probability and parsimony bootstrap support respectively.

b. Zygomycota did not form a clade with Ascomycota and Basidiomycota in the 18S rDNA phylogeny (Figure 2A).

c. Microsporidia is not included in the phylogenetic analyses based on 18S rDNA (Figure 2A) due to highly divergence of the sequences and difficulty in the alignment.

Liu et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006 6:74   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-74

Open Data