The biodiversity of the Earth never ceases to astonish. One example that has radically changed the face of biology is the discovery of a group of organisms called archaea (pronounced “ar-kee-ah”). It ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Life as we know it has been classified into three domains - Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. The first two domains include single-celled organisms that do not have a nucleus, and there were thought to ...

Microbiology has always been about recognizing the scale of what is unknown. In the beginning, the unknown was that microbes existed at all. The invention of the microscope proved that these tiny, ...

In the world of microbes, as in politics, some groups just can't seem to shake the label ''extremist.'' So it is with archaea, bacteria-like microorganisms whose unique genetics and chemical structure ...

Members of the domain Archaea are diverse and widespread, being found not only in extreme environments, such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents, but also in a range of moderate and aerobic ...

Archaea comprise the third domain of life, alongside bacteria and eukaryotes. The domain Archaea was proposed in 1977 by Carl Woese, as a result of phylogenetic studies that used ribosomal-RNA ...

Earth’s immense web of life fill three broad domains—archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. Scientists from Monash University recently discovered hydrogen-producing enzymes in archaea, which were thought to ...

Scientists have documented for the first time that animals can and do consume Archaea – a type of single-celled microorganism thought to be among the most abundant life forms on Earth. Archaea that ...

Just call them archaea (ar-kee-uh) - archaebacteria are no more. Archaea were once considered to be quite similar to bacteria, but these prokaryotes are just weird enough to be classified in their own ...