The fission yeast
Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an excellent model organism for studying eukaryotic processes such as cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis, DNA repair and recombination, splicing, and the checkpoint controls important for genome stability.
Schizosaccharomyces pombe forms a rod-shaped cell that grows at its tips and divides
More...by medial fission. Although originally isolated in East African millet beer ('pombe' means 'beer' in Swahili), Schizosaccharomyces pombe is not recommended for brewing.The haploid Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome is approximately 14 Mb, of which about 12.5 Mb is unique sequence. The genome is organized in 3 chromosomes. Less...
Reference genome: -
Schizosaccharomyces pombe ASM294v2
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