Schizosaccharomycetes

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Schizosaccharomycetes
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Taphrinomycotina
Class: Schizosaccharomycetes
O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997 [1] [2]
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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. pp. 336–338. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.00535-0. ISBN   978-0-08-096156-9.