Figure 5
Schematic evolution of telomere motif length in Saccharomycetaceae. The telomere motif length undergoes a series of stretchings (green nodes) and shrinkages (blue nodes). The root represents a common ancestor with Ascomycota and other eukaryotes. Recent publication hypothesizes TTAGGG as an ancestral sequence for all fungi and all eukaryotes, respectively55. The scheme of the tree is based on a recent genus-level phylogeny in Saccharomycotina73. The motif lengths are based either on results in this work or previous articles23,74. The branch lengths in this scheme do not represent evolutionary distances. (Figure created using Adobe Photoshop 22.2.0).
