Biology:Schizosaccharomycetes

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Short description: Class of fungi

Schizosaccharomycetes
Fission yeast.jpg
fission yeast culture
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Taphrinomycotina
Class: Schizosaccharomycetes
O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997[1][2]
Orders

Schizosaccharomycetales

Schizosaccharomycetes is a class in the kingdom of fungi. It contains the order Schizosaccharomycetales, the fission yeasts. The genus Schizosaccharomyces is a broad and ancient clade within Ascomycota including five known fission yeast: Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Schizosaccharomyces japonicius, Schizosaccharomyces octosporus, and Schizosaccharomyces cryophilus, and Schizosaccharomyces osmophilus.

References

  1. Eriksson, O.E. & K. Winka (1997). "Supraordinal taxa of Ascomycota". Myconet 1: 1–16. 
  2. N. Rhind (2013). "Schizosaccharomyces, Comparative Genomics of the Fission Yeasts". Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics. 

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