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The Unicellular, Parasitic Fungi, Sanchytriomycota, Possess a DNA Sequence Possibly Encoding a Long Tubulin Polymerization Promoting Protein (TPPP) but Not a Fungal-Type One

Microorganisms, 2023
The unicellular, parasitic fungi of the phylum Sanchytriomycota (sanchytrids) were discovered a few years ago. These unusual chytrid-like fungi parasitize algae.
Ferenc Orosz
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Chytridiomycosis of Marine Diatoms—The Role of Stress Physiology and Resistance in Parasite-Host Recognition and Accumulation of Defense Molecules

Marine Drugs, 2017
Little is known about the role of chemotaxis in the location and attachment of chytrid zoospores to potential diatom hosts. Hypothesizing that environmental stress parameters affect parasite-host recognition, four chytrid-diatom tandem cultures ...
Bettina Scholz, Frithjof C. Küpper, Wim Vyverman, Halldór G. Ólafsson, Ulf Karsten   +4 more
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Sodium chloride inhibits the growth and infective capacity of the amphibian chytrid fungus and increases host survival rates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a recently emerged pathogen that causes the infectious disease chytridiomycosis and has been implicated as a contributing factor in the global amphibian decline. Since its discovery, research
Michelle Pirrie Stockwell, John Clulow, Michael Joseph Mahony   +2 more
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Chytrid rhizoid morphogenesis resembles hyphal development in multicellular fungi and is adaptive to resource availability

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020
Key to the ecological prominence of fungi is their distinctive cell biology, our understanding of which has been principally based on dikaryan hyphal and yeast forms.
Davis Laundon, Nathan A. M. Chrismas, Glen L. Wheeler, M. Cunliffe   +3 more
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Drivers of bat researchers’ intent to adopt field hygiene practices

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Infectious disease is a growing threat to wildlife, with zoonotic transmission most likely at the human–wildlife interface. One underappreciated activity at this interface is fieldwork with wild animals, but associated risks can be mitigated through field hygiene (FH) practices, such as using personal protective equipment and other appropriate
Joanna L. Coleman, Ewan A. Macdonald, Abigail L. Rutrough, Tanja M. Straka, Todd D. Little, Zachary Stickley, Tigga Kingston   +6 more
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Microbial metacommunity ecology: Using null models and networks to understand assembly in a salamander disease system

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Animals host diverse microbiomes crucial for their health, which subsequently influence their function in ecosystems. Metacommunity theory offers a useful framework to understand the processes driving host‐associated microbiome assembly across scales, linking regional environmental processes to local host–microbial processes.
Randall R. Jiménez, Piper Thacher, Owen G. Osborne, Brian Gratwicke, Carly R. Muletz‐Wolz   +4 more
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Profiling the eukaryotic diversity over a year in a lake ecosystem through short- and long-read metabarcoding [PDF]

Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
Microbial eukaryotes play a vital role in biogeochemical cycles and aquatic food webs. Over past decades, their taxonomic diversity has been investigated using short-read DNA metabarcoding, which, while effective, is hampered by the limited resolution of
Marina Chauvet, Paul Terzian, Anne Moné, Didier Debroas, Gisèle Bronner, Cécile Lepère   +5 more
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Chytrid fungi shape bacterial communities on model particulate organic matter

Biology Letters, 2020
Microbial colonization and degradation of particulate organic matter (POM) are important processes that influence the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems.
Cordelia Roberts, Ro Allen, Kimberley E. Bird, M. Cunliffe   +3 more
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Distribution of parasitic chytrids of glacier algae in Alaska; Cryoconite holes as a hotspot of chytrid infection

, 2022
Abstract Glacier algae, which are photosynthetic microbes growing on ice, considerably reduce the surface albedo of glaciers and accelerate their melting rate. The growth of glacier algae can be suppressed by parasitic chytrids, yet their impacts on algal population are still largely unknown.
Kino Kobayashi, Nozomu Takeuchi, Maiko Kagami   +2 more
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Environmental detection of the amphibian chytrid fungus in water bodies is associated with host infection along a deforestation gradient

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 7, July 2026.
Linking environmental pathogen detection with host infection patterns can improve surveillance of diseases involving environmental transmission, particularly where direct host sampling is logistically challenging. This approach enables the identification of areas of elevated transmission risk and supports targeted monitoring and management under ...
Ananda Brito de Assis, David Rodriguez, Wesley J. Neely, Carla Martins Lopes, Paula R. Prist, Carlos Arturo Navas, Renato A. Martins, Shannon Buttimer, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, C. Guilherme Becker   +9 more
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