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The Schizosaccharomycetes are 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.

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  1. KingdomFungi
  2. PhylumAscomycota
  3. ClassSchizosaccharomycetes
Observations recorded4,267

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Taphrinomycotina
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Schizosaccharomycetes
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Category:Schizosaccharomycetes
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The Schizosaccharomycetes are 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.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schizosaccharomycetes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.