Fungi's surprising relativesSourced
Some of fungi's closest relatives look like tiny amoebas.
Nucleariids are free-living single-celled organisms. Molecular studies place them among the closest relatives of fungi, despite their very different appearance.
Evolutionary family trees can defy appearances.
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