Sometimes placed in class Oomycetes

• Simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi

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Fungi of the order Chytridiales , like other members of its division , may either have a monocentric thallus or a polycentric rhizomycelium . When the ribosomal genes of members classified in this order were first examined using molecular techniques, it ...