Kluyveromyces

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Kluyveromyces
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Saccharomycotina
Class: Saccharomycetes
Order: Saccharomycetales
Family: Saccharomycetaceae
Genus: Kluyveromyces
Van der Walt, 1956[1]
Species
  • K. aestuarii
  • K. africanus
  • K. bacillisporus
  • K. blattae
  • K. dobzhanskii
  • K. hubeiensis
  • K. lactis
  • K. lodderae
  • K. marxianus
  • K. nonfermentans
  • K. piceae
  • K. sinensis
  • K. thermotolerans
  • K. waltii
  • K. wickerhamii
  • K. yarrowii

Kluyveromyces is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae. Some of the species, such as K. marxianus, are the teleomorphs of Candida species.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Van der Walt, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Ned. Tijdschr. Hyg. 22: 271 (1956)
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