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Eriocheir sinensis
Crab, Chinese Mitten
Egg fungus
Oocytes
Fungal species
Fungal species
Fungal hyphae growing within oocytes
Unknown
Infection appears to replace normal yolk storage and dividing embryonic cells and culminates in complete destruction of the egg mass (with fungal hyphae spreading between adjacent eggs via sporolating bodies). The necrotic egg mass is then infested with filamentous bacteria and other non-specific pathogens.
River Thames
London
U.K
K.S.Bateman
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