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Nature 411, 644-645 (7 June 2001) | doi:10.1038/35079711
Plant pathology: Reverend Berkeley's devil
Nicholas P. Money
Organisms known as oomycetes or water moulds sound innocuous enough. There are 700 or so species of them, and although they are referred to as fungi (as the 'mycetes' in their name implies), they are more closely related to kelps and diatoms than mushrooms.
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