Saccharomycetes in the Catalogue of Life
Citation
Offord L.C. & Kirk P.M. (2019). Saccharomycetes (version Oct 2017). In: Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2019). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.Description
The ascomycetous yeast forming fungi include many species of economic, industrial and medical importance, e.g., Saccharomyces cerevisiae (used in the brewing and food industries and the first eukaryote to have its genome fully sequenced) and Candida albicans (infecting the human mouth, alimentary and genital tracts).Taxonomic Coverages
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