Schizosaccharomycetes

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

Schizosaccharomycetes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Taphrinomycotina
Class: Schizosaccharomycetes
O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997[1]

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Orders

Schizosaccharomycetales

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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