Biology:Schizosaccharomyces

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Short description: Genus of fungi


Schizosaccharomyces
Fission yeast.jpg
Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Schizosaccharomycetes
Order: Schizosaccharomycetales
Family: Schizosaccharomycetaceae
Genus: Schizosaccharomyces
Lindner
Species
  • S. cryophilus
  • S. japonicus
  • S. octosporus
  • S. osmophilus
  • S. pombe

Schizosaccharomyces is a genus of fission yeasts. The most well-studied species is S. pombe.[1][2] At present five Schizosaccharomyces species have been described (S. pombe, S. japonicus, S. octosporus, S. cryophilus and S. osmophilus).[3][4] Like the distantly related Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. pombe is a significant model organism in the study of eukaryotic cell biology. It is particularly useful in evolutionary studies because it is thought to have diverged from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae lineage between 300 million and 1 billion years ago, and thus provides an evolutionarily distant comparison.[5]

See also

References

  1. Hoffman CS; Wood V; Fantes PA. (Oct 2015). "An Ancient Yeast for Young Geneticists: A Primer on the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Model System.". Genetics 201 (2): 403–23. doi:10.1534/genetics.115.181503. PMID 26447128. 
  2. Fantes PA; Hoffman CS (2016). "A Brief History of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Research: A Perspective Over the Past 70 Years.". Genetics 203 (2): 621–9. doi:10.1534/genetics.116.189407. PMID 27270696. 
  3. "Comparative Functional Genomics of the Fission Yeasts". Science 332 (6032): 930–936. 21 April 2011. doi:10.1126/science.1203357. PMID 21511999. Bibcode2011Sci...332..930R. 
  4. Brysch-Herzberg, Michael; Tobias, Andrea; Seidel, Martin; Wittmann, Rupert; Wohlmann, Elke; Fischer, Reinhard; Dlauchy, Dénes; Peter, Gabor (2019-06-01). "Schizosaccharomyces osmophilus sp. nov., an osmophilic fission yeast occurring in bee bread of different solitary bee species" (in en). FEMS Yeast Research 19 (4): foz038. doi:10.1093/femsyr/foz038. ISSN 1567-1364. PMID 31132130. 
  5. Eisen, Jonathan A. (2002-02-21). "Brouhaha over the other yeast". Nature 415 (6874): 845–848. doi:10.1038/nature725. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11859347. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11859347. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1317935 entry