Well, as said, this page is about Fungi:
When you hear the word "Fungi", most people think of mushrooms, but that isn't the only type of fungi out there. In fact, in the Kingdom Fungi there are over 40,000 different species of fungus.
The fungus I'm going to focus on here is the Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (or Bd for short).
It doesn't really belong to any of the Fungi phyla, as it is a parasitic, so it is an unclassified fungus.
It lives in freshwater, around where amphibians live. It reproduces asexually (and clonally) by producing aquatic zoospores in a zoosporangium.
An interesting fact is that it lives near amphibians because that it what it hosts on, it infects amphibians. It has caused mass deaths of many different kinds of Amphibians. It causes Amphibian chytridiomycosis, which effects nearly one-third of the Amphibian population, and there is no known way to control it.
When you hear the word "Fungi", most people think of mushrooms, but that isn't the only type of fungi out there. In fact, in the Kingdom Fungi there are over 40,000 different species of fungus.
The fungus I'm going to focus on here is the Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (or Bd for short).
It doesn't really belong to any of the Fungi phyla, as it is a parasitic, so it is an unclassified fungus.
It lives in freshwater, around where amphibians live. It reproduces asexually (and clonally) by producing aquatic zoospores in a zoosporangium.
An interesting fact is that it lives near amphibians because that it what it hosts on, it infects amphibians. It has caused mass deaths of many different kinds of Amphibians. It causes Amphibian chytridiomycosis, which effects nearly one-third of the Amphibian population, and there is no known way to control it.