If one has an esophageal cancer it is important to have a good nutrition. Treatment can make it hard thus a soft diet and high protein food is recommended.A tube feeding would be ideal if anything can't be eaten through mouth. A tube called J tube can be put in one's small intestine or G tube if put in a stomach. Parenteral nutrition can also be done if there is an intravenous drip.
A population that has been isolated, especially a smaller one, could have a high level of homozygosity and therefore not a lot of genetic variation. Gene flow between such populations can increase the level of heterozygosity, and therefore up genetic variation.
It is an oomycete.
These can often look like fungi, but they're not! They're actually more closely related to algae than fungi.