The Saccharomycetaceae are a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of yeast

Yeast

Yeasts are eukaryotic micro-organisms classified in the kingdom Fungi, with 1,500 species currently described estimated to be only 1% of all fungal species. Most reproduce asexually by mitosis, and many do so by an asymmetric division process called budding...

 in the order Saccharomycetales

Saccharomycetales

Saccharomycetales is an order in the kingdom of fungi that comprises the budding yeasts and includes twelve families.-Genera incertae sedis:...

 that reproduce by budding

Budding

Budding is a form of asexual reproduction in which a new organism grows on another one. The new organism remains attached as it grows, separating from the parent organism only when it is mature. Since the reproduction is asexual, the newly created organism is a clone and is genetically identical...

. Species in the family have a cosmopolitan distribution

Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a taxon is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution if its range extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. For instance, the killer whale has a cosmopolitan distribution, extending over most of the world's oceans. Other examples include humans, the lichen...

 distribution, and are present in a wide variety of habitats, especially those with a plentiful supply of carbohydrate

Carbohydrate

A carbohydrate is an organic compound with the empirical formula ; that is, consists only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, with a hydrogen:oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 . However, there are exceptions to this. One common example would be deoxyribose, a component of DNA, which has the empirical...

 sources. The family contains the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast. It is perhaps the most useful yeast, having been instrumental to baking and brewing since ancient times. It is believed that it was originally isolated from the skin of grapes...

, arguably the most economically important fungus

Fungus

A fungus is a member of a large group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds , as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, Fungi, which is separate from plants, animals, and bacteria...

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Genera

According to the 2007 Outline of Ascomycota, there are twenty genera within the family, although for several of these (marked with a question mark below), the placement is uncertain and requires more study.

Brettanomyces

Brettanomyces

Brettanomyces is a non-spore forming genus of yeast in the family Saccharomycetaceae, and is often colloquially referred to as "Brett". The genus name Dekkera is used interchangeably with Brettanomyces, as it describes the teleomorph or spore forming form of the yeast. The cellular morphology of...

Candida

Candida (genus)

Candida is a genus of yeasts. Many species are harmless commensals or endosymbionts of animal hosts including humans, but other species, or harmless species in the wrong location, can cause disease. Candida albicans can cause infections in humans and other animals, especially in immunocompromised...

?Citeromyces

?Cyniclomyces

?Debaryomyces

Debaryomyces

Debaryomyces is a genus of yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae....

?Issatchenkia

Kazachstania

Kazachstania

Kazachstania is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida. It contains one species, K. gerardoi.-External links:* at the Paleobiology Database...

(synonymous with Arxiozyma)

Kluyveromyces

Kluyveromyces

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....

Komagataella

Kuraishia

Lachancea

?Lodderomyces

Nakaseomyces

?Pachysolen

Pichia

Pichia

Pichia is a genus of yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae with spherical, elliptical or oblong acuminate cells. Pichia is a teleomorph, and forms during sexual reproduction hat-shaped, hemispherical or round ascospores. The anamorphs of some Pichia species are Candida species...

Saccharomyces

Saccharomyces

Saccharomyces is a genus in the kingdom of fungi that includes many species of yeast. Saccharomyces is from Greek σάκχαρ and μύκης and means sugar fungus. Many members of this genus are considered very important in food production. One example is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is used in making...

Spathaspora

Tetrapisispora

Vanderwaltozyma

Torulaspora

Torulaspora

Torulaspora is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae....

?Williopsis

Zygosaccharomyces

Zygosaccharomyces

Zygosaccharomyces is a genus of yeast in the family Saccharomycetaceae. It was first described under the Saccharomyces genus but in 1983 it was reclassified to its current name in the work by Barnett et al. The yeast has a long history as a spoilage yeast within the food industry. This is mainly...

Zygotorulaspora