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).

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 ...

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 ...

Field blanks and media blanks were included ... which have been reported for bacteria (Oliver, 2009), and might also affect the cultivability of Archaea. This problematic background has also ...

Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock Archaea are a group of single-celled microorganisms that represent a separate domain of life, next to bacteria and eukarya. Although they typically reside ...

Earth’s immense web of life fill three broad domains—archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. Scientists from Monash University ...

Archaea are single celled organisms that were long believed to be a specific group of bacteria. Similar to bacteria, they do not have a nucleus with dna, or other organelles within their cells.

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

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 ...

Archaea are a distinct group of microbes, similar to bacteria [see box]. The team of NIOZ microbiologists studies the so-called DPANN-archaea, that have particularly tiny cells and relatively ...