Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...

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Finally, the three-domain structure of Woese's tree (Figure 1a) shows that evolutionary history is decoupled from biological organization. Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar ...

turning her imagination to the six classifications of life forms that scientists call kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, ...