According to newest study, all complex life forms (eukaryotes) trace their roots back to a common ancestor among a group of microbes...

Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA #Borgs Blur Boundaries. Some #archaea seem to carry unusual DNA outside their chromosomes that straddles the...

#microbiology #evolution #Archaea are more than just oddball lifeforms that thrive in unusual places: they turn out to be quite...

#microbiology #environment #climate #archaea Researchers identify an entirely new phylum of archaea (which they named Brockarchaeota) in...

#methanogen #pregnancy #microbiome #archaea To understand the dynamics of methanogens in the human intestinal #microbiota, we...

Researchers from China and the US found evidence of multiple novel Asgard MAGs that expands the phylogenetic diversity of Asgard...