This study represents the first successful cultivation of ultrasmall bacteria that parasitize archaea, which evolutionarily ... Furthermore, they proposed a new phylum Minisyncoccota formerly ...

The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes recently pulled the rank of phylum into its code of official nomenclature ... the familiar names and nomenclature for the bacteria and archaea ...

Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar biologically (members of both groups consist of tiny cells without much internal structure) and different from eukaryotes. However, until ...

Members of the phylum Bathyarchaeota are abundant in marine sediments ... an important fuel for other sediment-dwelling organisms such as methanogens (which include marine archaea) and heterotrophic ...

Classification attempts to impose a hierarchy on the complex and dynamic variety of life on Earth by describing how different species group together and how they are related to one another or not ...