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osi, Gergely J
S et al.. (2015). “Genome-scale phylogenetic analysis
finds extensive gene transfer among fungi”. Philosophical
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[DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0335]
Ebersberger,
Ingo et al.. (2012). “A consistent phylogenetic backbone
for the fungi”. Molecular Biology and Evolution
29(5):1319–34 .
[PMID: 22114356]
[DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr285]
Marcet-Houben,
Marina and Toni Gabalda’on. (2009). “The tree versus the forest:
the fungal tree of life and the topological diversity within the yeast
phylome”. Plos One 4(2):e4357 .
[PMID: 19190756]
[DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004357]
Also: Nature-Scitable (2008): Reading a Phylogenetic Tree: The Meaning of Monophyletic Groups
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