(mycology) The single family of the order Saccharomycetales.
Saccharomycetaceae
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family of fungi comprising the typical yeasts: reproduce by budding and ferment carbohydrates
Synonym: family Saccharomycetaceae
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Ascomycota |
| Subphylum: | Saccharomycotina |
| Class: | Saccharomycetes |
| Order: | Saccharomycetales |
| Family: | Saccharomycetaceae G. Winter, 1881 |
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| 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, espcially those with a plentiful supply of carbohydrate sources.[1] The family contains the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, arguably the most economically important fungus.
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
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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