Saccharomycotina

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Saccharomycotina

Saccharomycotina is a subphylum of the phylum Ascomycota

Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a Phylum of the kingdom Fungi, and subkingdom Dikarya, whose members are commonly known as the Sac Fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 30,000 species....
(fungi which form their sexual spores in sac-like asci

Ascus

An ascus is the sexual spore-bearing cell produced in Ascomycota fungi. On average, asci normally contain 8 ascospores, produced by a meiosis cell division followed, in most species, by a mitosis cell division....
), and consists of yeast

Yeast

Yeasts are eukaryote microorganisms classified in the Kingdom fungus, with about 1,500 species currently described; they dominate fungal diversity in the oceans....
s - they form no ascocarps (fruiting bodies), their asci are naked, and they can reproduce asexually by budding.

The only class in this subphylum is Saccharomycetes

Saccharomycetes

Saccharomycetes is a class in the kingdom of fungi. It contains the order Saccharomycetales, the budding yeasts. Hemiascomycetes is a more or less synonymous name....
.

It includes the well-known Baker's Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of budding yeast. It is perhaps the most useful yeast owing to its use since ancient times in baking and brewing....
and the genus Candida
Candida (genus)

Candida is a genus of yeasts. Many species of this genus are endosymbionts of animal hosts including humans. While usually living as Commensalisms, some Candida species have the potential to cause disease....
which infects humans.