An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

While it was previously known that ocean eddies transport large quantities ... between lipids from phytoplankton, bacteria, and archaea species." The results of the study showed that the lipid ...

archaea. The most complex living things were colonies of microbes such as stromatolites and microbial mats. No plants, no animals, just a barren landscape of rock, river and ocean. The emergence ...

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 ...