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The products of genes linked to the major translocation are associated with ‘metabolism’ and ‘cellular assembly’ ontology terms. We further show that CBS5679 does not generate viable progeny with the reference strain of <jats:italic>S. japonicus</jats:italic>. Although CBS5679 shares closer similarity to the ‘type’ strain of var. <jats:italic>versatilis</jats:italic> as compared to S. <jats:italic>japonicus</jats:italic>, it is not identical to the type strain, suggesting population structure within var. <jats:italic>versatilis</jats:italic>. We recommend that the taxonomic status of <jats:italic>S. japonicus</jats:italic> var. <jats:italic>versatilis</jats:italic> is raised, with it being treated as a separate species, <jats:italic>Schizosaccharomyces versatilis</jats:italic>.</jats:p>","journal":"Yeast","year":2024,"id":659761,"datarank":0.31191623125197543,"base_score":2.0794415416798357,"endowment":2.0794415416798357,"self_citation_contribution":0.31191623125197543,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.31191623125197543,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":7,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1722244,"name":"Elisa Gomez Gil","orcid":"0000-0001-9157-2028","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":88700,"name":"Wilfried Haerty","orcid":"0000-0003-0111-191X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":598617,"name":"Snezhana Oliferenko","orcid":"0000-0002-8138-6851","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":34445,"name":"Conrad A. 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