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Chytrids Definition:

  • A term used to describe members of Chytridiomycota, fungi that produce motile zoospores with single, posterior, whiplash flagella.

    Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton



Chytrids Notes:

Chytrid is an informal name of Chytridiomycota, which are a division of zoosporic organisms in the kingdom Fungi. This name is derived from a Greek word chytridion, which means little pot, and this describes the structure that contains unreleased zoospores.

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