Chytridiomycota, often known as chytrids, is a subdivision of zoosporic organisms in the Fungi kingdom. Chytridiomycota, or chytrids, is one of the five true phyla of fungi. Chytridiomycetes is the only class that represents the Phylum Chytridiomycota. This is the simplest and earliest type of Eumycota, or true fungus.
Most of them live on organic waste or are parasites of animals and algae (like saprobes). A few species of the Order Chytridiales cause plant disease, and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has been proven to infect frogs and other amphibians.
Allomyces, often known as a water mould, Synchytrium endobioticum, a potato pathogen, and Neocallimastix, a chytrid that coexists symbiotically in the intestine of herbivores like cattle, are a few examples of the Chytridiomycota.
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