Chytridiomycota
Sign in to saveChytridiomycota are a division of zoosporic organisms in the kingdom Fungi, informally known as chytrids. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek (''''), meaning "little pot", describing the structure containing unreleased zoospores. Chytrids are one of the earliest diverging fungal lineages, and their membership in kingdom Fungi is demonstrated with chitin cell walls, a posterior whiplash flagellum, absorptive nutrition, use of glycogen as an energy storage compound, and synthesis of lysine by the -amino adipic acid (AAA) pathway.
Research
1,956 papers- Nephridiophagids (Chytridiomycota) reduce the fitness of their host insects.Journal of invertebrate pathology · 2022
- Preservation of Chytridiomycota in culture collections.Mycological research · 2007
- Rhizophlyctidales--a new order in Chytridiomycota.Mycological research · 2008
- Cladochytriales--a new order in Chytridiomycota.Mycological research · 2009
- Novel taxa in Cladochytriales (Chytridiomycota): Karlingiella (gen. nov.) and Nowakowskiella crenulata (sp. nov.).Mycologia · 2019
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- Chytridiomyceta
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Morphology
- Life cycle
- Habitats
- Ecological functions
- ''Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis''
- Other parasites
- Saprobes
- Fossil record
- In fictional media
- References
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Chytridiomycota are a division of zoosporic organisms in the kingdom Fungi, informally known as chytrids. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek (''), meaning "little pot", describing the structure containing unreleased zoospores. Chytrids are one of the earliest diverging fungal lineages, and their membership in kingdom Fungi is demonstrated with chitin cell walls, a posterior whiplash flagellum, absorptive nutrition, use of glycogen as an energy storage compound, and synthesis of lysine by the -amino adipic acid (AAA) pathway.
Chytrids are saprobic, degrading refractory materials such as chitin and keratin, and sometimes act as parasites. There has been a significant increase in the research of chytrids since the discovery of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the causal agent of chytridiomycosis.