Ichthyosporea
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The Ichthyosporea (or DRIP clade, or Mesomycetozoea) are a small group of Opisthokonta in Eukaryota (formerly protists), mostly parasites of fish and other animals.
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It is catalogued under topics including Ichthyosporea, Opisthokont classes and Parasites of fish.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Ichthyosporea
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- Mesomycetozoea
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- taxon common name
- 孢子型鱼病根足纲
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The Ichthyosporea (or DRIP clade, or Mesomycetozoea) are a small group of Opisthokonta in Eukaryota (formerly protists), mostly parasites of fish and other animals.
==Significance== They are not particularly distinctive morphologically, appearing in host tissues as enlarged spheres or ovals containing spores, and most were originally classified in various groups as fungi, protozoa, or colorless algae. However, they form a coherent group on molecular trees, closely related to both animals and fungi and so of interest to biologists studying their origins. In a 2008 study they emerge robustly as the sibling-group of the clade Filozoa, which includes the animals.
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