Chytrid Fungus and Chytridiomycosis - http://www.amphibianark.org/chytrid.htm
Information on the newly discovered fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which is devastating populations of amphibia around the world. |
Chytridiomycota - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycota
Information from Wikipedia on the classification of this division of the kingdom Fungi whose members mostly live in water and are able to metabolise chitin and keratin. |
Chytridiomycota: 14 Clades of Flagellated Fungi - http://users.aber.ac.uk/gwg/pdf/James-Chytrids2006.pdf
Paper on the molecular phylogeny of Chytridiomycota with a description of a new phylum, the Blastocladiomycota. |
Fungal Zoospores: Chytrids and Plasmodiophorids - http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/chytrid.htm
Introduction to these organisms, with many microscopic images. |
Physoderma asphodelae - http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r159686.htm
Photographs of lesions caused by this chytridiomycete fungus and magnified images of sporangia. |
Simple Fungi: Phyla Chytridiomycota and Oomycota - http://www.mycolog.com/chapter2b.htm
Illustrated outline of the classification and economic significance of the Chytridiomycota and Oomycota. |
Synchytrium endobioticum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchytrium_endobioticum
Information from Wikipedia on this chytrid fungus that causes potato wart disease, its systematics, morphology, life cycle and ecology. |
Synchytrium erieum - http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r162039.htm
Photographs of ribwort plantain infected by this chytrid and magnified images of the spores. |
Synchytrium succisae - http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r159510.htm
Photographs of devil’s bit scabious infected by this chytrid and magnified images of the spores. |