Compared to bacteria, our knowledge of archaeal biology is limited. Historically,
microbiologists have mostly relied on culturing and single-gene diversity surveys to …

Raman microspectroscopy offers microbiologists a rapid and non-destructive technique to
assess the chemical composition of individual live microorganisms in near real time. In this …

The accrual of genomic data from both cultured and uncultured microorganisms provides
new opportunities to develop systematic taxonomies based on evolutionary relationships …

The recent recovery of genomes for organisms from phyla with no isolated representative
(candidate phyla) via cultivation-independent genomics enabled delineation of major new …

The Archaea occupy a key position in the Tree of Life, and are a major fraction of microbial
diversity. Abundant in soils, ocean sediments and the water column, they have crucial roles …

BACKGROUND Archaea have been recognized as a major domain of life besides Bacteria
and Eukarya for about 40 years. Much of the pioneering research on archaeal organisms …

An enormous diversity of previously unknown bacteria and archaea has been discovered
recently, yet their functional capacities and distributions in the terrestrial subsurface remain …

Recent findings have shaken our picture of the biology of the archaea and revealed novel
traits beyond archaeal extremophily and supposed 'primitiveness'. The archaea constitute a …

Methanogenic archaea are major contributors to the global carbon cycle and were long
thought to belong exclusively to the euryarchaeal phylum. Discovery of the methanogenesis …

Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has become an increasingly utilized tool in
biologically relevant studies. Of these, high lateral resolution methodologies using the …