Mastigomycotina
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Mastigomycotina | |
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Scientific classification | |
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Subdivision: | Mastigomycotina Ainsworth and Bisby, 1971
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Class: | Oomycetes
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Order: | Peronosporales
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Family: | Pythiacea
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Genus: | Pythium
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Mastigomycotina is a former polyphyletic taxonomic grouping, a subdivision, of fungi, similar to Phycomycetes, and that included the zoosporic classes Chytridiomycetes, Hyphochytriomycetes, Plasmodiophoromycetes and Oomycetes.[1]
General features of Mastigomycotina:[2]
- They produce flagellated cells during their lifetime.
- May bear rhizoids.
- Mostly, filamentous and having coenocytic mycelium.
- Show centric nuclear division.
- Perfect state of spores is typically oospores.
See also
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References
- ^ Sparrow, F. K. (1973). Mastigomigotina (zoosporic fungi). In: Ainsworth, G.C., Sparrow, F.K. & Sussman, A.S. (eds). The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, vol IV B. Academic Press, New York, pp. 61-73, [1]. From Barr (2001), [2].
- ^ Wong, G. J.: Classification of Fungi. URL last accessed 2007-04-03.
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