An international scientific team has redefined our understanding of archaea, a microbial ancestor to humans from two billion years ago, by showing how they use hydrogen gas. The findings, published in ...

Sepideh Pakpour, James A. Scott, Stuart E. Turvey, Jeffrey R. Brook, Timothy K. Takaro, Malcolm R. Sears and John Klironomos Archaea are widespread and abundant in soils, oceans, or human and animal ...

Since the formal recognition of the archaeal domain around two decades ago (Woese et al., 1990), knowledge of the biology, diversity and ecology of this microbial group has grown considerably. Archaea ...

In the late 1970’s, our understanding of the tree of life was fundamentally changed with the discovery and recognition of Archaea, a third domain of life along with Bacteria and Eukarya. While ...