Phylogeny of Opisthokonta and the evolution of multicellularity and complexity in Fungi and Metazoa

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The fungi: 1, 2, 3 ... 5.1 million species? (2011, background): “Phylogenetic studies provided evidence that nucleriid protists are the sister group of Fungi ( Medina et al., 2003 ), nonphotosynthetic heterokont fl agellates are placed among brown algae and other stramenopiles, and slime mold groups are excluded from Fungi ( Alexopoulos et al., 1996 ).”
An overview of the phylogeny and diversity of eukaryotes (2008, background): “In fact, both lines have at least two unicellular sister taxa— mesomycetozoa and choanoflagellates in the case of Metazoa (Steenkamp et al., 2006; Ruiz-Trillo et al., 2008) and nucleariid amoebas and chytrids in the case of Fungi (Medina et al., 2003; Steenkamp et al., 2006).”
The Evolution of Multicellularity: A Minor Major Transition? (2007, background): “Multicellularity appears to have originated once for the Metazoa (King 2004), but multiple times (with secondary losses) in plants, fungi, and the Eubacteria (Bonner 2000, Kaiser 2001, Kirk 1998, Medina et al. 2003, Shapiro 1998).”
Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny (2006, unknown): “Very little conflicting signal among genes was detected, allowing construction of one super-matrix combining the data for all six gene regions for 199 fungal taxa, 29 of which used data from genome sequencing projects (Supplementary Notes 1).”