Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kryptonia appears to have acquired this characteristic through horizontal gene transfer from Archaea. “This work is very exciting in that it seems to contribute to several populations present in high ...