Mastigomycotina Explained

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

• Fungus-like organisms

Notes and References

1. 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, https://books.google.com/books?id=qjYmAQAAMAAJ. From Barr (2001), https://books.google.com/books?id=-GyARbyTobYC&pg=PA99.
2. Wong, G. J.: Classification of Fungi. URL last accessed 2007-04-03.