A new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont

@article{Huber2002ANP,
  title={A new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont},
  author={Harald Huber and Michael J. Hohn and Reinhard Rachel and Tanja Fuchs and Verena C. Wimmer and K. O. Stetter},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2002},
  volume={417},
  pages={63-67}
}
According to small subunit ribosomal RNA (ss rRNA) sequence comparisons all known Archaea belong to the phyla Crenarchaeota, Euryarchaeota, and—indicated only by environmental DNA sequences—to the ‘Korarchaeota’. Here we report the cultivation of a new nanosized hyperthermophilic archaeon from a submarine hot vent. This archaeon cannot be attached to one of these groups and therefore must represent an unknown phylum which we name ‘Nanoarchaeota’ and species, which we name ‘Nanoarchaeum equitans… 
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