Fig. 1

Taxonomy of eukaryotes. Taxonomy of eukaryotes with the supergroups and groups used in the reference database. Two remaining groups combining small lineages are not depicted. Coloured with darker background is the diversity of the supergroups and groups computed as the maximum Bray-Curtis dissimilarity over 4-mer spectra from the proteins of the reference genomes, as defined in [61]. Additionally, the mean Bray-Curtis dissimilarity is indicated as a dashed line. The taxonomy is based on Boenigk and Wodniok [53]