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» Chytrid Fungus and Chytridiomycosis
   Information on the newly discovered fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which is devastating populations of amphibia around the world.
   http://www.amphibianark.org/chytrid.htm

» 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.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycota

» Chytridiomycota: 14 Clades of Flagellated Fungi
   Paper on the molecular phylogeny of Chytridiomycota with a description of a new phylum, the Blastocladiomycota.
   http://users.aber.ac.uk/gwg/pdf/James-Chytrids2006.pdf

» Fungal Zoospores: Chytrids and Plasmodiophorids
   Introduction to these organisms, with many microscopic images.
   http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/chytrid.htm

» Physoderma asphodelae
   Photographs of lesions caused by this chytridiomycete fungus and magnified images of sporangia.
   http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r159686.htm

» Simple Fungi: Phyla Chytridiomycota and Oomycota
   Illustrated outline of the classification and economic significance of the Chytridiomycota and Oomycota.
   http://www.mycolog.com/chapter2b.htm

» Synchytrium endobioticum
   Information from Wikipedia on this chytrid fungus that causes potato wart disease, its systematics, morphology, life cycle and ecology.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchytrium_endobioticum

» Synchytrium erieum
   Photographs of ribwort plantain infected by this chytrid and magnified images of the spores.
   http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r162039.htm

» Synchytrium succisae
   Photographs of devil’s bit scabious infected by this chytrid and magnified images of the spores.
   http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r159510.htm