Sentences with phrase «first archaea»

Boetius was trying to count those dots on her computer screen, first the archaea and then the sulfate reducers, to find out how many were in her sediments.

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The resemblance between archaea and eukaryote DNA wrapping means that the first organism that used this storage scheme was an ancestor of both modern eukaryotes and archaea, the researchers conclude.

So Reeve and colleagues used a method called X-ray crystallography to discern, for the first time, the precise shape of archaea DNA bound to histones.

As a few researchers had been arguing ever since microbial evolutionist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois first suggested it in the 1970s, archaea may look like bacteria, but they actually belong on a third branch of the tree of life.

The first eukaryote is thought to have arisen when simpler archaea and bacteria joined forces.

Baum and Dey say they now plan to explore the basic cell biology of the related archaea Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, first isolated from an acidic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.

Although scientists generally agree that eukaryotes can trace their ancestry to a merger between archaea and bacteria, there's been considerable disagreement about what the first eukaryote and its immediate ancestors must have looked like.

The archaea in Boetius's clumps were close relatives of other archaea that live a quarter or a half mile down — the ones that make the methane in the first place.

Most biologists still favor the standard view that the universal ancestor, already a quite sophisticated organism that had come a long way since the origin of life, first branched into the bacteria and the archaea.

A metagenomics analysis finds Cas9 in archaea for the first time, along with two previously unknown Cas nucleases from bacteria.

This paper, which was the result of a collaboration with Brett Baker's lab at UTexas (USA), describes the first characterization of the genomes of a group of archaea formerly known as SAGMAG.

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,

With the discovery of Asgard» clade archaea, the homologs of key eukaryote cytoskeletal proteins have, for the first time, been identified in archaea.

The audience voted after the presentations and chose the first prizewinner to be «Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes» presented by Anja Spang.

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.