Saccharomycetaceae
| Saccharomycetaceae | |
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| Saccharomyces cerevisiae under DIC microscopy | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Ascomycota |
| Subphylum: | Saccharomycotina |
| Class: | Saccharomycetes |
| Order: | Saccharomycetales |
| Family: | Saccharomycetaceae G. Winter, 1881 |
| Type genus | |
| Saccharomyces Meyen ex E.C. Hansen |
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The Saccharomycetaceae are a family of yeast in the order Saccharomycetales that reproduce by budding. Species in the family have a cosmopolitan distribution distribution, and are present in a wide variety of habitats, especially those with a plentiful supply of carbohydrate sources.[1] The family contains the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, arguably the most economically important fungus.
[edit] Genera
According to the 2007 Outline of Ascomycota, there are twenty genera within the family, although for several of these (marked with a question mark below), the placement is uncertain and requires more study.[2]
Brettanomyces
Candida
?Citeromyces
?Cyniclomyces
?Debaryomyces
?Issatchenkia
Kazachstania (synonymous with Arxiozyma)
Kluyveromyces
Komagataella
Kuraishia
Lachancea
?Lodderomyces
Nakaseomyces
?Pachysolen
Pichia
Saccharomyces
Spathaspora
Tetrapisispora
Vanderwaltozyma
Torulaspora
?Williopsis
Zygosaccharomyces
Zygotorulaspora
[edit] References
- ^ Cannon PF, Kirk PM. (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford: CABI. pp. 320–21. ISBN 0-85199-827-5.
- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA) 13: 1–58. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp.
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