Sentences with phrase «new archaea»

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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.

This finding provides new insight into the evolutionary origins of the DNA - packing process and the secret to archaea's hardiness, which enables some to live in acid, boiling water or other extreme environments.

It also suggests that cell life could have emerged with a far greater variety of pre-cellular forms than those conventionally considered, as the new giant virus has almost no equivalent among the three recognized domains of cellular life, namely eukaryota (or eukaryotes), eubacteria, and archaea.

The team modelled how the membrane changed, enabling LUCA's descendants to move to new, more challenging environments and evolve into two distinct types of single - celled organism, bacteria and archaea, creating the deepest branch of the tree of life.

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.

A new study indicates that plants, fungi, and animals are descendants of archaea, the group of single - celled organisms that includes Sulfolobus, a resident of hot springs.

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Named Lokiarchaea, the organisms are a new type of archaea.

Informed by more than 1,000 newly sequenced types of microbe, Banfield's new tree reveals the diversity and long lineage of bacteria, which, along with eukaryotes and archaea, represent the three main domains of life.

Though no one has identified an actual cell yet, the new phylum appears to mingle genes similar to those in modern eukaryotes and genes from archaea, the sister group to bacteria.

Using the award - winning PhyloChip, a credit card - sized device that can detect the presence of more than 60,000 species of bacteria and archaea, the new method was found to be more sensitive than conventional methods at assessing health risks.

Potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrogen oxides produced by denitrifying bacteria in overfertilized Chinese farming lands or methane released by archaea in the millions of ruminant animals in Australia and New Zealand, may have contributed substantially to global warming.

With our new found understanding of how Bacteria and Archaea impact global biogeochemical cycling, the differential role of divergent microbial metabolisms and lineages in food webs must be addressed.

Together with other international partners, Yakimov's team has already identified more than ten new lineages of bacteria and archaea (these are ancient bacteria - like organisms), which they have named the Mediterranean Sea Brine Lake Divisions.

The Ettema - lab has published a new paper about the discovery of a new group of archaea, the Hadesarchaea.

This study sheds new light onto archaeal genome evolution, the deep roots of archaea and the phylogenetic placement of DPANN.

In an international collaboration, the Ettema - lab has published a new paper in Nature about a group of archaea that gives unique insight into the evolution of cellular complexity, the Asgard archaea.

A new article in the scientific journal Nature, reports the discovery of a new group of Archaea, the Lokiarchaeota (or «Loki» for short).

For my project, I work on a new group within the Asgard archaea, known as the Freyarchaeota, where I use bioinformatics tools to unveil their possible complexity and what makes them unique.