Schizosaccharomycetes

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.

Schizosaccharomycetes
fission yeast culture
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Subdivision:	Taphrinomycotina
Class:	Schizosaccharomycetes O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997[1][2]
Orders
Schizosaccharomycetales