Archaea and bacteria are two different domains of cellular life. They are both prokaryotes, as they are unicellular and lack a nucleus. They also look similar (even under a microscope).

The cell envelope of archaea is fundamentally different from bacteria in that it does not contain peptidoglycan, and archaeal membranes are composed of ether lipids instead of ester lipids.

Gene editing in archaea would require a molecular toolkit that microbiologists have yet to develop. 18 “You have to find an antibiotic or selection marker that works. You have to find plasmids. It’s ...

Well, not the full diversity, it turns out. The three domains that make up all life on Earth are bacteria, archaea, and complex life (which includes us humans). And a new study of gut microbiomes ...

Together with Bacteria and Eukarya, the Archaea make up the three domains of the tree of life. Originally, it was thought that Archaea were a type of Bacteria, typified by their ability to live in ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus. AIST researchers, in ...

While one of these groups retained the name bacteria, the second was called archaea to reflect its distinct lineage from early in life's history. Bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes thus made up the ...

The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just look like bacteria. But, in recent years, it’s been their connection to us ...

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

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 ...

We have discovered, for the first time in the world, bacteria that parasitize the methanogenic archaea, which play a central role in anaerobic wastewater treatment systems. The ultrasmall ...