| Schizosaccharomycetes | |
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| fission yeast culture | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Subdivision: | Taphrinomycotina |
| Class: | Schizosaccharomycetes O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997[1][2] |
| Orders | |
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.
- ^ Eriksson, O.E. & K. Winka (1997). "Supraordinal taxa of Ascomycota". Myconet. 1: 1–16.
- ^ N. Rhind (2013). "Schizosaccharomyces, Comparative Genomics of the Fission Yeasts". Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics: 336–338. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.00535-0. ISBN 978-0-08-096156-9.