Belongs within: Opisthokonta.Contains: Rhizophydiales, Spizellomycetales, Cladochytriales, Chytridiales. The Chytridiomycota are a clade of microscopic fungi retaining flagellated zoospores. Characters (Adl et al. 2019): Thallus monocentric, polycentric or filamentous; uniciliated zoospores with a posteriorly directed cilium, nine ciliary props, microbody–lipid globule complex (MLC) consisting of a cisterna which may be simple or fenestrated (=rumposome), microbodies and mitochondria associated with lipid globules;… Continue reading Chytridiomycota