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Chytrids

Chytrides (Chytridiomycota) produce so-called zoospores, which have a flagellum and therefore, they are mobile. Chytrides reproduce mainly asexually through these zoospores, which are produced by mitosis. Chytrides mainly infect algae and other microorganisms, but can also infect higher organisms. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which infects amphibians, and Synchytrium endobioticum, which infects potato plants, are among the chytrides. 

Updated: 2022-03-24.

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences