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domain Archaea cladistically includes eukaryotes, the term "archaea" (sg.:
archaeon /ɑːrˈkiːɒn/ ar-KEE-on, from the Gr**** "ἀρχαῖον",
which means ancient) in...
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salty environments.
Haloquadratum walsbyi is a
phototrophic halophilic archaeon. It was the only
recognized species of the
genus Haloquadratum until 1999...
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volcano is
where the
thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus was
first isolated. The
archaeon is
named for the volcano, as most species...
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concentration of 2%.
Nanoarchaeum appears to be an
obligate symbiont on the
archaeon Ignicoccus; it must be in
contact with the host
organism to survive. Nanoarchaeum...
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Thermococcus gammatolerans is a gram-negative
archaeon extremophile and the most radiation-resistant
organism known to exist. As
reported in 2003 the type...
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Halobacterium halobium, is an
extremely halophilic marine obligate aerobic archaeon.
Despite its name, this is not a bacterium, but a
member of the domain...
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thermophilic methanogenic archaean in the
class Methanococci. It was the
first archaeon, and
third organism, to have its
complete genome sequenced. The sequencing...
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Pyrococcus yayanosii is a
strictly anaerobic,
hyperthermophilic archaeon,
first identified through samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Isolated from a...
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Methanobrevibacter smithii is the
predominant methanogenic archaeon in the
microbiota of the
human gut. M.
smithii has a
coccobacillus shape. It plays...
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process is
widely agreed to have
involved symbiogenesis, in
which an
archaeon and a
bacterium came
together to
create the
first eukaryotic common ancestor...
