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Genus of fungi

Kluyveromyces
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Saccharomycetes
Order: Saccharomycetales
Family: Saccharomycetaceae
Genus: Kluyveromyces
Van der Walt, 1956
Species

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.

The genus name of Kluyveromyces is in honour of Albert Jan Kluyver ForMemRS (1888-1956), who was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist.

The genus was circumscribed by Johannes P. Van der Walt in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek vol.22 on pages 268–271 in 1956.

Mating and sporulation in Kluyveromyces are co-induced by poor environments and most often occur in succession without intervening diploid mitotic cell divisions.

A RAD52 gene homolog from Kluyveromyces lactis was cloned and characterized. This gene, which has a central role in recombinational repair of DNA, can complement S. cerevisiae rad52 mutants.

Species

Kluyveromyces is widely cultured for microbiological and genetic research. Some important species include:

See also

References

  1. Van der Walt, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Ned. Tijdschr. Hyg. 22: 271 (1956)
  2. "Kluyveromyces Walt, 1956". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. Hanson SJ, Wolfe KH. An Evolutionary Perspective on Yeast Mating-Type Switching. Genetics. 2017 May;206(1):9-32. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.202036. PMID 28476860; PMCID: PMC5419495
  5. ^ Milne GT, Weaver DT. Dominant negative alleles of RAD52 reveal a DNA repair/recombination complex including Rad51 and Rad52. Genes Dev. 1993 Sep;7(9):1755-65. doi: 10.1101/gad.7.9.1755. PMID 8370524
Taxon identifiers
Kluyveromyces


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