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Fission Yeast
Schizosaccharomyces pombe is the fission yeast, a rod-shaped single-celled fungus that grows at its tips and divides by splitting into two equal daughter cells. Paul Lindner described it in 1893 from the sediment of East African millet beer, and its name comes from the Swahili word for beer. Since the 1950s it has been one of the most important model organisms in genetics and cell biology; work on its cell cycle contributed to Paul Nurse's share of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It is only distantly related to baker's yeast.
Not a mushroom and not eaten as a food in its own right; occurs in some traditional fermented drinks. No safety or toxicity information was found in the sources consulted.
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