Cases of horizontal gene transfer between the four osmotrophic groups

A bar chart reports the number of horizontal gene transfer events up the vertical y-axis, with four different pairs of grouping on the x-axis: Fungi and Labyrinthulea, Fungi and Pseudofungi, Teretosporea and Labyrinthulea, and Tereteosporea and Pseudofungi. The bars on the chart are colored according to which lineage the gene was transferred from: brown for fungi, blue for Pseudofungi, purple for Teretosporea, red for Labyrinthulea and grey for uncertain.

The bar chart shows the number of horizontal gene transfer events detected between each pair of osmotrophic groups. Uncertainty remains in some cases concerning the direction of the transfer events.

Date:
05 June 2026
Credit:
Ocaña-Pallarès et al. Signatures of gene transfer in the parallel evolution of osmotrophic specialization in eukaryotes. Nat Ecol Evol (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03054-w
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