NIES-MCC | KU-MACC | Tree to Strain Japanese | English
Life / Eukarya / Opisthokonta / Fungi / Chytridiomycota / Monoblepharidomycetes
Hyaloraphidium
Oedogoniomyces
Harpochytrium
Gonapodya
Monoblepharella
Monoblepharis
1. Hyaloraphidiales, Hyaloraphidiaceae
2. Monoblepharidales
2. Oedogoniomycetaceae
3. Harpochytriaceae
4. Gonapodyaceae
5. Monoblepharidaceae
Reference
  • Hibbett, D. S. et al. (2007) A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycol. Res. 111: 509-547.
  • James, T. Y. et al. (2006) Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny. Nature 443: 818-822.
  • James, T. Y., Letcher, P. M., Longcore, J. E., Mozley-Standridge, S. E., Porter, D., Powell, M. J., Griffith, G. W. & Vilalys, R. (2006) A molecular phylogeny of the flagellated fungi (Chytridiomycota) and description of a new phylum (Blastocladiomycota). Mycologia 98: 860-871.

The monoblepharidomycetes are zoosporic fungi living in freshwater.

The early divergences such as Hyaloraphidium (previously classified as colorless green alga) grow as simple monocentric unbranched thalli but Gonapodya, Monoblepharella and Monoblepharis form polycentric coenocytic mycelia. Flagellate cell containes a basal body parallel to a non-flagellated centriole. The elecron opaque core is usually present in the transitional region of flagellum. Microtubules radiating anteriorly from the striated disk partially extending around the basal body in flagellate cell. Zoospore possesses a ribosomal aggregation and rumposome (fenestrated cisterna) adjacent to a microbody. Asexual reproduction by zoospores or autospores. Sexual reproductions in polycentric species are oogamous by means of uniflagellate antherozoids borne in antheridia and nonflagellate female gametes borne in oogonia.

Fungi