Kluyveromyces
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| Kluyveromyces | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Saccharomycetes |
| Order: | Saccharomycetales |
| Family: | Saccharomycetaceae |
| Genus: | Kluyveromyces Van der Walt, 1956[1] |
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Kluyveromyces is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
A RAD52 gene homolog from Kluyveromyces lactis was cloned and characterized.[5] This gene, which has a central role in recombinational repair of DNA, can complement S. cerevisiae rad52 mutants.[5]
