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.

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

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch.

The single-cell organism grows branching appendages and contains eukaryote-like genes, though it belongs to the domain Archaea. “This is a monumental paper that reflects a tremendous amount of work ...

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 ...

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 ...

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