Anaerobic chytrids from herbivores

Abstract

[7] sequence data shows that anaerobic chytrids are monophyletic (i.e. they had a single ancestor which was either the ancestral, free-living anaerobic chytrid or the ancestral, free-living aerobic chytrid which invaded the digestive tract of herbivores). In either event, the lack of host specificity [8][9][10] would be sufficient to explain the present day ubiquitous dis