bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.11.088658; this version posted May 13, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 1 Genome-scale phylogeny and contrasting modes of genome evolution in the fungal 2 phylum Ascomycota 3 Xing-Xing Shen1,*, Jacob L. Steenwyk2, Abigail L. LaBella2, Dana A. Opulente3, Xiaofan 4 Zhou4, Jacek Kominek3, Yuanning Li2, Marizeth Groenewald5, Chris Todd Hittinger3, and 5 Antonis Rokas2,* 6 7 1Institute of Insect Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop 8 Pathogens and Insects, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 9 310058, China 10 2Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA 11 3Laboratory of Genetics, Wisconsin Energy Institute, Center for Genomic Science Innovation, DOE 12 Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of 13 Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA 14 4Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of 15 Microbial Signals and Disease Control, Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China 16 Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China 17 5Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 3584 CT, The Netherlands 18 19 *Correspondence:
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[email protected] (AR) 20 Keywords: Fungi, evolutionary rate, GC content, phylogenomics, molecular dating, ancestral 21 state reconstruction, genome evolution, budding yeasts, genome size bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.11.088658; this version posted May 13, 2020.