Draft Genome Analysis of Trichosporonales Species That Contribute to the Taxonomy of the Genus Trichosporon and Related Taxa

Abstract

Many nomenclatural changes, including proposals of new taxa, have been carried out in fungi to adapt to the “One fungus = One name” (1F=1N) principle. In yeasts, while some changes have been made in response to 1F=1N, most have resulted from two other factors: i) an improved understanding of biological diversity due to an increase in number of known species, and ii) progress in the methods for analyzing and evaluating biological diversity. The method for constructing a backbone tree, which is a basal tree used to infer phylogeny, has also progressed from single-gene trees to multi-locus trees and further, to genome trees. This paper describes recent advances related to the contribution of genomic data to taxonomy, using the order Trichosporonales as an example.