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Saccharomyces boulardii
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Saccharomyces boulardii

Saccharomyces boulardii is a tropical yeast first isolated from lychee and mangosteen peels in 1923 by French scientist Henri Boulard. Although early reports claimed distinct taxonomic, metabolic, and genetic properties, S. boulardii is a grouping of S. cerevisiae strains, all sharing a >99% genomic relatedness. This has given rise to the synonym S. cerevisiae var. boulardii.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1141609.