Some of Earth's weirdest fungi, including types of lichen, mycorrhizal, and insect symbiotes, never quite seemed to fit in our current tree of life.
"What is really fascinating is that despite these fungi looking so different, they have a lot in common at the level of their genomes,"University of Alberta biologist David Díaz-Escandón and colleagues sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 30 different species of fungi from nine different countries around the globe.
The results suggest that 600 species of fungi, previously placed across seven different classes, should all belong together on the same evolutionary branch, called Lichinomycetes. Since the class Lichinomycetes was the oldest name in the bunch, the researchers decided to use it as a new category. "They were classified, but they were classified into such different parts of the fungal side of the tree of life that people never suspected they were related to each other,"This taxonomic level of class is equivalent to the difference between us and frogs and this new class parted ways with the
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