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Um, the fungi branch should be closer to the animal branch than the plant branch. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.216.186.35 (talk • contribs).
- I agree with the anon user. No recent phylogenies have the plants and fungi as monophyletic. What is the original reference used to draw this diagram? I did a quick search for a paper addressing the animal (A), plant (P) and fungi (F) tree using rRNA sequences and even as far back as 1989 there is no evidence to suggest that plants and fungi are monophyletic.
- Gouy M, Li WH. (1989) Molecular phylogeny of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi. Mol Biol Evol. 6(2):109-22. PMID 2469937
- In this paper the rRNA phylogeny has plants and animals being monophyletic ((A, P) F). Another analysis with a tRNA phylogeny also has ((A, P) F) if rooted to the eubacteria but has ((A, F) P) if rooted to the halobacterium.
- Nikoh N et al. (1994) Phylogenetic relationship of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi, inferred from 23 different protein species. Mol Biol Evol. 11(5):762-8. PMID 7968489
- This paper extends the analysis to protein sequences. In protein phylogenies the most parsimonious tree is ((A, F) P), although four proteins have ((A, P) F). Only two have a ((F, P) A) tree.
- If this tree is based on a specific reference it should be cited for context. If it is drawn based on several sources then I suggest we have a three way fork for animal, plant and fungi similar to the tree at Image:Phylogenetic_tree.svg. David D. (Talk) 07:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
