Clades:
Schizosaccharomycetaceae,
Schizosaccharomycetales, Schizosaccharomycetes,
Ascomycota,
Fungi,
Plants.
Genus: single in the
Family; 4 species:
Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, Schizosaccharomyces octosporus, Schizosaccharomyces cryophilus.
MycologyFission yeast; a significant model organism in the study of eukaryotic cell biology, particularly in evolutionary studies, probably diverged from the
Saccharomyces cerevisiae lineage between 300 million and 1 billion years ago; yeast; reproducing by fission rather than budding.