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Chytridiomycota

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Chytridiomycota: see water mold water mold, common name for a group of multinucleated organisms that superficially resemble fungi but are now recognized as having an independent evolutionary lineage and are placed in the kingdom Protista.
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1) PHYLUM CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA The first group is known as chytridiomycota these are true fungi and they have a single flagellum at the rear of the cell, this flagellum propels the mold cell through the water just like the flagellum at the rear of a sperm cell propels sperm cells.
Researchers comparing skin samples from Panamanian and Australian victims found them infected by the same type of organism: one or more fungi of the phylum Chytridiomycota.
 
 
 
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