The classification of a production area determines the treatment required before Live Bivalve Molluscs (shellfish) may be marketed for human consumption. Shellfish production and relay areas are ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch.

Scientists have discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil of an organism known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form classification, as it is not a plant, an animal, or a fungus ...

The answer may lie with Asgard archaea, a group of ancient single-celled microbes that share surprising similarities with more complex organisms. By closely examining one of these microbes, scientists ...

The researchers started by comparing various global datasets and then used various data points to ensure an accurate land classification. The newly developed map gave a clearer picture of the ...

UPDATE: After a listing noted that Silent Hill F had been refused classification in Australia, the listing has now been removed off the classification board website. It’s not clear if the original ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered ...

1 Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Ecology Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Ji’nan, China 2 Henan Key Laboratory of Ecological ...

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 ...

Recently, aCPSF1 was reported to function as the long-sought global transcription termination factor of archaea; however, the working mechanism remains elusive. This work, through analyzing transcript ...