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Zoospores of Rozella. (photo credit: Timothy James, University of Michigan)

The genus Rozella is mostly known to parasitize water molds, and R. allomycis is an obligate parasite of the Blastocladiomycotan fungus Allomyces. The phylum is otherwise known exclusively from a large number of environmental DNA sequences produced in aquatic, marine, and other habitats (Jones et al. 2011; Lara et al. 2011). R. allomycis grows within the host as naked protoplasm, and reproduces through the production of ephemeral zoosporangia or chitinous, thick-walled resting sporangia. The parasite requires the host to produce the cell wall of the zoosporangium, which at maturity cleave into numerous zoospores with a single flagellum. The zoospore, upon finding a suitable host, retracts its flagellum, develops a cell wall, and injects its cytoplasm into the host. The parasite protoplasm is suspected of being capable of phagocytosing the host's cytoplasm (Powell 1984). The ancestral characteristic of phagotrophy as well as phylogenetic analyses have placed the Cryptomycota at the base of the fungal tree (James et al. 2006).

Rozella allomycis has been selected as part of a Fungal single-cell genome sequencing pilot project and was sequenced using single-cell methods. A separate annotation, "Rozella allomycis CSF55", was previously sequenced using non-single-cell methods (James et al. 2013).

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