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 ...

The tree of life is broken up into three domains: Bacteria, Eukarya and Archaea. Bacteria are tiny, simple cells with no nucleus. Eukaryotes, by contrast, keep their DNA in a nucleus and have ...

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

In recent years, Archaea's connection to us has been pretty huge and surprising. The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just ...

Hokkaido University. "Novel bacteria parasitizing archaea." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 February 2025. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250210132133.htm>.

Prokaryotic cells, which include all bacteria and archaea, are ancient, and relatively simple compared to eukaryotic cells, which are found in fungi, plants, and animals. Scientists have long sought ...

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

Defense systems found in all complex life (eukaryotes), including us, were likely passed down from “microbial ancestors” known as Asgard archaea billions of years ago. According to recent ...

Wood-eating termites are one of the most numerous and ecologically relevant soil-dwelling insects on earth. They thrive on the abundant biopolymer lignocellulose, depending upon a phy-logenetically ...

This research bolsters the idea that all complex life, called eukaryotes, arose from a symbiotic relationship between bacteria and Asgard archaea. It adds more support to the fact that the Asgards ...

Minimal and hybrid hydrogenases are active from archaea. Cell, 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.032 ...