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Filamentous growth (and the production of hyphae) can comprise linear and branched budding cells that do not undergo cell separation, termed pseudohyphae, or of tubular filaments with septa that perforate allowing movement of organelles, termed true hyphae. We integrated phenotypic, genomic, metabolic, and isolation environment data from 1,154 strains from 1,051\n                  <jats:italic>Saccharomycotina<\/jats:italic>\n                  species to examine the variation and evolutionary history of filamentation across\n                  <jats:italic>Saccharomycotina<\/jats:italic>\n                  and determine the extent to which genes, metabolic traits, and environments can predict filamentation types. We found that 63.37% of strains can form filaments; 6.56% can form true hyphae, 42.40% can form pseudohyphae, and 14.39% can form both true hyphae and pseudohyphae. We found that the distributions of species that can produce true hyphae or that can filament were more strongly correlated with the yeast phylogeny than the distribution of species with pseudohyphae. Ancestral state reconstruction suggested that the ability to form true hyphae and\/or pseudohyphae evolved several times in yeast evolution. We infer that most yeast ancestors likely produced pseudohyphae or lacked filaments, while the\n                  <jats:italic>Saccharomycotina<\/jats:italic>\n                  last common ancestor likely produced pseudohyphae but not true hyphae. Machine learning models trained on genomic and metabolic features predicted filament morphologies with about 70% accuracy. Connecting the evolution of\n                  <jats:italic>Saccharomycotina<\/jats:italic>\n                  morphologies to their genomic, metabolic, and ecological characteristics will enrich our understanding of the evolution of the diversity of lifestyles observed in this lineage.\n                <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1101\/2025.11.26.690719","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,28]],"date-time":"2025-11-28T00:25:16Z","timestamp":1764289516000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Macroevolution of Filamentation Morphology Across the\n                  <i>Saccharomycotina<\/i>\n                  Yeast Subphylum"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"given":"Christina 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