Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China Zhejiang Key Laboratory of ...

Na.no.pu.sil'lus. Gr. masc. n. nânos, a dwarf; L. masc. adj. pusillus, very small; N.L. masc. n. Nanopusillus, a very small member of the Nanoarchaeota ...

State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China University of Chinese Academy of ...

The archaeal domain is currently divided into two major phyla, the Euryarchaeota and the Crenarchaeota, based on the RNA component of the small ribosomal subunit (SSU rRNA). During the past few years, ...

Diverse microorganisms specifically inhabit extreme environments, such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents. To test the hypothesis that the microbial community structure is predictable ...

In contrast to bacteria, all archaea possess cell walls lacking peptidoglycan and a number of different cell envelope components have also been described. A paracrystalline protein surface layer, ...

Lipids composed of condensed isoprenyl units connected to glycerol backbones by ether linkages are a distinguishing feature of Archaea. Data suggesting that fatty acids with linear hydrocarbon chains ...

CO 2 fixation is the most important biosynthesis process on Earth, enabling autotrophic organisms to synthesize their entire biomass from inorganic carbon at the expense of energy generated by photo- ...

The Archaea constitute a separate domain of life that has evolved in parallel with Bacteria and Eukarya (1). The archaeal domain is currently divided into two main lineages, the Crenarchaeota and the ...

Sediment was collected from an estuary station in Qi'ao Island (Pearl River Estuary, (E 113°38′07.3, N 22°27′21.4)) in Guangdong province, China, in April 2005 by using a single-core sampler. The ...