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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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The disease at first baffled scientists because they had never known chytrids to attack vertebrates.
New frog-killing disease may not be so new by Milius, S. / Science News
No significant morphologic differences between chytrids infecting Australian and Central American amphibians were found by transmission electron microscopy, and the pathogen was identified as a member of the order Chytridiales by analysis of zoospore ultrastructure and 18s rDNA sequence data (28).
Emerging infectious diseases and amphibian population declines by Speare, Rick / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Common in soil, many species of chytrids had been known to break down dead insects and cause crop diseases.
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