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Zygomycota, the conjugating fungi, is a fungal phylum containing two classes, class Zygomycetes and class Trichomycetes.


Most Trichomycetes are parasites or commensals inside the guts of living arthropods.


Class Zygomycetes includes 7 orders, 30 families, 125 genera, and almost 900 species (about 1% of the known species of fungi). Its members include fast-growing, primary colonizers of substrates containing accessible carbon sources such as sugar and starch.


The best known representative of this phylum is black bread mold.


Last update : 2002-03-04 18:22:54

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