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Schizosaccharomyces

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Schizosaccharomyces is a genus of fission yeasts. The most well-studied species is S. pombe. At present five Schizosaccharomyces species have been described (S. pombe, S. japonicus, S. octosporus, S. cryophilus and S. osmophilus). 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.

Species

fission yeast

GENUS

  1. KingdomFungi
  2. PhylumAscomycota
  3. ClassSchizosaccharomycetes
  4. OrderSchizosaccharomycetales
  5. FamilySchizosaccharomycetaceae
Observations2
Observations recorded1,159

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
2
With media
1
Family
Schizosaccharomycetaceae
Collections
UFPE
Recorded in
Brasil

Research

14,528 papers

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
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Fission yeast.jpg
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taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Schizosaccharomyces
Commons category
Schizosaccharomyces
taxon common name
裂殖酵母屬
taxon author citation
Lindner
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Encyclopedic overview

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Schizosaccharomyces is a genus of fission yeasts. The most well-studied species is S. pombe. At present five Schizosaccharomyces species have been described (S. pombe, S. japonicus, S. octosporus, S. cryophilus and S. osmophilus). 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.

==See also== Yeast in winemaking

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