supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970229 and No.32122010);Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity,the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant(No.2018M632329).
Volvocales forms a species-rich clade with wide morphological variety and is regarded as an ideal model for tracing the evolutionary transitions in multicellularity.The phylogenetic relationships among the colonial vo...