Schizosaccharomycetes
fission yeast culture
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Wikispecies has information related to Schizosaccharomycetes.
  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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