Direct link between convergent evolution at sequence level and phenotypic level of septal pore cap in Agaricomycotina.

Abstract excerpt

Several homologous morphological characters, despite sharing apparently similar features, are known to have independently evolved in different lineages multiple times. However, the genetic backgrounds of such morphological convergences remain poorly understood. To detect any correlated amino acid substitutions potentially responsible for morphological convergence at the phenotypic level, we focused on the...

Topics

• Evolution, Molecular
• Phylogeny
• Phenotype
• Basidiomycota
• Amino Acid Substitution
• Genome, Fungal
• Fungal Proteins