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Archaea

Known as: Archaeobacteria, Archaeon, Mendosicutes 
One of the three domains of life (the others being BACTERIA and Eukarya), formerly called Archaebacteria under the taxon Bacteria, but now considered… Expand
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AcidianusCrenarchaeotaHalobacteriaMethanobacteria
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Broader (3)

BacteriaMicroorganismmonera
HalobacteriumMethanosarcinaceaeMicrobiology procedureScience of Microbiology
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Review
2012
Review
2012
An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea
Reference phylogenies are crucial for providing a taxonomic framework for interpretation of marker gene and metagenomic surveys… Expand
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Review
2012
Review
2012
RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) are essential components of nucleic-acid-based adaptive immune… Expand
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
Ditching Invading DNA Bacteria and archaea protect themselves from invasive foreign nucleic acids through an RNA-mediated… Expand
Review
2010
Review
2010
CRISPR/Cas, the Immune System of Bacteria and Archaea
CRISPR Defenses Prokaryotes can be infected by parasites and pathogens and, like eukaryotes, have evolved systems to protect… Expand
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea
Sequencing of bacterial and archaeal genomes has revolutionized our understanding of the many roles played by microorganisms… Expand
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Ammonia oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria
The discovery of ammonia oxidation by mesophilic and thermophilic Crenarchaeota and the widespread distribution of these… Expand
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils
Ammonia oxidation is the first step in nitrification, a key process in the global nitrogen cycle that results in the formation of… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima
The 1,860,725-base-pair genome of Thermotoga maritima MSB8 contains 1,877 predicted coding regions, 1,014 (54%) of which have… Expand
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Archaea in coastal marine environments.
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  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 1992
    • Corpus ID: 22778674
Archaea (archaebacteria) are a phenotypically diverse group of microorganisms that share a common evolutionary history. There are… Expand
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.
Molecular structures and sequences are generally more revealing of evolutionary relationships than are classical phenotypes… Expand
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