In addition, a new variant of the species Methanobrevibacter smithii, which is referred to as GRAZ-2, was isolated. The scientists have thus taken another important step toward understanding the ...

O ver 1500 bacterial species can cause human disease, as can hundreds of eukaryotic pests, like fungi, protists, and helminth worms.But there is a third domain of life missing from medical literature: ...

Archaea, key players in the human microbiome, are linked to various diseases but their pathogenic potential remains speculative. ... Archaeal species, particularly M. smithii, ...

Most research has focused on bacteria, while little is known about archaea. Although archaea make up just 1.2% of the gut microbiome, they may have important regulatory effects.

Identification of new archaea species elucidates the domain’s unique biology and sheds light on its relationship to eukaryotes. ... gene for part of the methane-processing methyl-coenzyme M reductase ...

The authors of the new work on Asgard archaea argue so strongly for the latter option that they think we should get rid of the three domains idea entirely. Instead, in their view, there are just ...

Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn. One challenge is that archaea are ... Other haloarchaeal species were found to ...

So archaea have been a blind spot within a blind spot. But by examining the ones we can culture, and probing the molecules of the ones we can’t, we've managed to figure out some pretty ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus. AIST researchers, in ...