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Kluyveromyces
Sign in to saveKluyveromyces is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae. Some of the species, such as K. marxianus, are the teleomorphs of Candida species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassSaccharomycetes
- OrderSaccharomycetales
- FamilySaccharomycetaceae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations2
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Research
3,594 papers- Kluyveromyces marxianus: An emerging yeast cell factory for applications in food and biotechnology.International journal of food microbiology · 2020
- Kluyveromyces as promising yeast cell factories for industrial bioproduction: From bio-functional design to applications.Biotechnology advances · 2023
- Kluyveromyces marxianus: a potential biocatalyst of renewable chemicals and lignocellulosic ethanol production.Critical reviews in biotechnology · 2021
- Stress response and adaptation mechanisms in Kluyveromyces marxianus.Advances in applied microbiology · 2024
- Kluyveromyces marxianus as a host for heterologous protein synthesis.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2016
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Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Saccharomycetaceae
- Image
- Kluyveromyces marxianus colonies.jpg
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kluyveromyces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.