A team of researchers at Macquarie University, in Australia, has found evidence showing that some Archaea have integrons. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes ...

Scientists have found further evidence to support the idea that the primary two domains of life, the Archaea and Bacteria, are separated by a long phylogenetic tree branch and therefore distantly ...

Life as we know it has been classified into three domains - Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. The first two domains include single-celled organisms that do not have a nucleus, and there were thought to ...

In the world of microbes, as in politics, some groups just can't seem to shake the label ''extremist.'' So it is with archaea, bacteria-like microorganisms whose unique genetics and chemical structure ...

Earth’s immense web of life fill three broad domains—archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. Scientists from Monash University recently discovered hydrogen-producing enzymes in archaea, which were thought to ...

Following the drive to understand and control bacteria, it’s becoming clear that our methods have changed the very organisms we aim to understand, increasing resistance to tried-and-true antimicrobial ...

Microbiology has always been about recognizing the scale of what is unknown. In the beginning, the unknown was that microbes existed at all. The invention of the microscope proved that these tiny, ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is essential for genome evolution across the tree of life and has an important role in archaeal speciation, adaptation, and maintenance of diversity. Many of the ...

Just call them archaea (ar-kee-uh) - archaebacteria are no more. Archaea were once considered to be quite similar to bacteria, but these prokaryotes are just weird enough to be classified in their own ...