Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Clades: Schizosaccharomycetaceae, Schizosaccharomycetales, Schizosaccharomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi, Plants.
Genus: single in the Family; 4 species: Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, Schizosaccharomyces octosporus, Schizosaccharomyces cryophilus.
Mycology
Fission 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.