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.
^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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