The study focuses on the genus in the Ganodermataceae family, highlighting its significance for medicinal purposes and noting the absence of sequenced mitogenomes from dikaryon strains until now.
Four new mitogenomes were assembled for analysis, revealing a high nucleotide similarity of 82.93-92.02% with reference mitogenomes, along with 15 core protein-coding genes identified for phylogenetic studies.
The research identified genes 9 and 4L as reliable markers for constructing DNA barcodes, demonstrating their potential to distinguish species effectively and reflecting evolutionary divergence in related clades.