Genomic Analysis of the Basal Lineage Fungus Rhizopus oryzae Reveals a Whole-Genome Duplication

Abstract

The paper presents sequencing and analysis of the genome of the mucoralean fungus Rhizopus oryzae and shows that a whole-genome duplication occurred in the Rhizopus lineage.

Keywords

• Rhizopus
• genome
• evolution
• multicellularity
• Zygomycetes