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Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès: Reconstruction of the fungal tree of life. HUGE: fungi have terrestrialized >1.2 BYA!!!
Solving the fungal tree of life prove to be extremely difficult and is a question that scientists have been sealing with for a very long time. Eduard and team used very intricate methods (too long to explain here), using pectin enzymes as a root for the fungal tree, thus making huge leaps in understand in the phylogeny of fungi.
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