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Approximately 500 species of “true” yeasts, in 69 genera, are described in the most recent edition of The Yeasts: a Taxonomic Study (Kreger-van Rij 1984). There are a number of other relatively significant organisms which have a yeast-like phase under some conditions of growth. Indeed, one of the better definitions of the yeasts in general is “those fungi, basidiomycetes or ascomycetes, whose vegetative stage is unicellular, which multiply by budding or fission, which may or may not form spores during a sexual stage, and which have not been named as some other type of fungus”. A definition of the yeasts says as much about what they are not, as about what they are. Nevertheless, the different species of yeasts must be given names.
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Spencer, J.F.T., Spencer, D.M. (1997). Taxonomy: The Names of the Yeasts. In: Spencer, J.F.T., Spencer, D.M. (eds) Yeasts in Natural and Artificial Habitats. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03370-8_3
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