Origin of life: How a special group of single-celled organisms laid the foundation for complex cells
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...
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Asgard archaea provide clues to the origin of complex life forms
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...
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Microbial diversity mapped: 42% of bacteria lack genomic data, study finds
This leaves 36% of archaeal diversity with no genomic representation. "When it comes to isolate genome data, our real-world touchstones, we're just scratching the proverbial Petri dish," Seshadri ...
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Deep-sea methane cycling
In this study, they were interested in characterizing the archaeal community that is present in this location and whether it changes over time compared with the community that is present in the ...