class Chytridiomycetes

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class Chytridiomycetes - a class of mostly aquatic fungi; saprophytic or parasitic on algae or fungi or plants

class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

Mastigomycota, Mastigomycotina, subdivision Mastigomycota, subdivision Mastigomycotina - fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota

Chytridiales, order Chytridiales - simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes

Blastocladiales, order Blastocladiales - fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes

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Anaerobic saprophyte fungi, in the main zoosporic fungi, belong to the division Eumycotina, subdivision Mastigomycina and class Chytridiomycetes (Orpin & Joblin, 1997).

Bacterial diversity in bovine rumen by metagenomic 16S rDNA sequencing and scanning electron microscopy/Diversidade bacteriana em rumen bovino por analise de sequencias do 16S rDNA metagenomico e microscopia eletronica de varredura