Sentences with phrase «archaea discovered»

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In the 1970s, the acclaimed biologist Carl Woese discovered a completely new group of microorganisms, the Archaea, and showed that these represented a separate branch in the Tree of Life — a finding that stunned the scientific community at the time.

Scientists originally discovered this sophisticated system in archaea and bacteria, which deploy CRISPR to chop up invading viruses.

Spang et al. review the diversity of Archaea and their genomes, metabolomes, and history, which clarifies the biology and placement of recently discovered archaeal lineages.

Newly discovered archaea from the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean suggest that eukaryotes evolved from archaea.

Recently, while searching the ocean's depths off the coast of Santa Monica, California, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists discovered something odder still: a remarkable new virus that seemingly infects methane - eating archaea living beneath the ocean's floor.

When the team assayed the samples for viral infection, they discovered a new virus with a distinctive genetic fingerprint that suggested its likely host was methane - eating archaea.

The investigators were further surprised to discover that this virus selectively targets one of its own genes for mutation and, moreover, that some archaea do too.

These archaea were first discovered in 3 - kilometer deep gold mines in South - Africa, and were later found to be cosmopolitan microbes that thrive in the subsurface biosphere.

These archaea were first discovered in 3 - kilometer deep gold mines in South - Africa,

«Having been discovered rather late in the game, the archaea were not very well understood organisms,» he says.

According to Forbes.com, the North Carolina - Georgia project will start with a bug based on an archaea, or bacteria, called pyrococcus furiosus, first discovered near the hot springs of Vulcano Island in Italy.