This study represents the first successful cultivation of ultrasmall bacteria that parasitize archaea, which evolutionarily diverged approximately 4 billion years ago and exhibit significant ...

Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar biologically (members of both groups consist of tiny cells without much internal structure) and different from eukaryotes. However, until ...

An international scientific team has redefined our understanding of archaea, a microbial ancestor to humans from two billion ...

While previous research had described bidirectional promoters in eukaryotes, as well as in a few bacteria and archaea species, the new study establishes divergent transcription—the reading of genes in ...

The future Earth will be dominated by anaerobic organisms—bacteria and archaea that thrive in oxygen-free environments. These microbes existed before the GOE and will likely continue to flourish ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Last month, many microbiologists were surprised to find that the familiar names and nomenclature for the bacteria and archaea they study had been ...

One of these involves fusion between cells from domains Archaea and Bacteria: one of the cells involved in the fusion becomes the eukaryote nucleus (Martin & Muller 1998; Martin 2005; Martin et al.

Vaginal microbes play a huge role in overall health, but researchers know relatively little about them. Citizen science could help change that.

Most are unicellular, but with features that disqualify them from grouping with other types of life like animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and archaea. In the ocean, some protists function like ...