The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology

Genomic reconstruction of multiple lineages of uncultured benthic archaea suggests distinct biogeochemical roles and ecological niches

(2017) C S Lazar et al.   ISME Journal

New insights into marine group III Euryarchaeota, from dark to light

(2017) Jose M Haro-Moreno et al.   ISME Journal

Energy Metabolism during Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in ANME Archaea

(2017) Shawn E. McGlynn   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Elucidation of the biosynthesis of the methane catalyst coenzyme F430

(2017) Simon J. Moore et al.   NATURE

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

(2017) Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al.   NATURE

Integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution roots the archaeal tree of life

(2017) Tom A. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reverse Methanogenesis and Respiration in Methanotrophic Archaea

(2017) Peer H. A. Timmers et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Unexplored Archaeal Diversity in the Great Ape Gut Microbiome

(2017) Kasie Raymann et al.   mSphere

Genomic evidence for distinct carbon substrate preferences and ecological niches of Bathyarchaeota in estuarine sediments

(2016) Cassandre Sara Lazar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanogenesis and the Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway: An Ancient, Versatile, and Fragile Association

(2016) Guillaume Borrel et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genomic reconstruction of a novel, deeply branched sediment archaeal phylum with pathways for acetogenesis and sulfur reduction

(2016) Kiley W Seitz et al.   ISME Journal

LokiarchaeotaMarks the Transition between the Archaeal and Eukaryotic Selenocysteine Encoding Systems

(2016) Marco Mariotti et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Tracing the Archaeal Origins of Eukaryotic Membrane-Trafficking System Building Blocks

(2016) Christen M. Klinger et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Thermophilic archaea activate butane via alkyl-coenzyme M formation

(2016) Rafael Laso-Pérez et al.   NATURE

The biosynthetic pathway of coenzyme F430 in methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea

(2016) Kaiyuan Zheng et al.   SCIENCE

Methane production from coal by a single methanogen

(2016) D. Mayumi et al.   SCIENCE

The methanogenic CO2 reducing-and-fixing enzyme is bifunctional and contains 46 [4Fe-4S] clusters

(2016) T. Wagner et al.   SCIENCE

High occurrence of Pacearchaeota and Woesearchaeota (Archaea superphylum DPANN) in the surface waters of oligotrophic high-altitude lakes

(2016) Rudiger Ortiz-Alvarez et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Culture Independent Genomic Comparisons Reveal Environmental Adaptations for Altiarchaeales

(2016) Jordan T. Bird et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea

(2016) Brett J. Baker et al.   Nature Microbiology

Metagenomics uncovers gaps in amplicon-based detection of microbial diversity

(2016) Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh et al.   Nature Microbiology

Genomic and enzymatic evidence for acetogenesis among multiple lineages of the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota widespread in marine sediments

(2016) Y. He et al.   Nature Microbiology

Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent

(2016) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Nature Microbiology

A new view of the tree of life

(2016) Laura A. Hug et al.   Nature Microbiology

Archaea and the human gut: New beginning of an old story

(2016) Nadia Gaci et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Metabolic traits of an uncultured archaeal lineage -MSBL1- from brine pools of the Red Sea

(2016) Romano Mwirichia et al.   Scientific Reports

Archaea

(2015) Laura Eme et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomic Expansion of Domain Archaea Highlights Roles for Organisms from New Phyla in Anaerobic Carbon Cycling

(2015) Cindy J. Castelle et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uncultivated thermophiles: current status and spotlight on ‘Aigarchaeota’

(2015) Brian P Hedlund et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic potential of fatty acid oxidation and anaerobic respiration by abundant members of Thaumarchaeota and Thermoplasmata in deep anoxic peat

(2015) Xueju Lin et al.   ISME Journal

Ecophysiology of an uncultivated lineage of Aigarchaeota from an oxic, hot spring filamentous ‘streamer’ community

(2015) Jacob P Beam et al.   ISME Journal

Gene Acquisitions from Bacteria at the Origins of Major Archaeal Clades Are Vastly Overestimated

(2015) Mathieu Groussin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Extending the Conserved Phylogenetic Core of Archaea Disentangles the Evolution of the Third Domain of Life

(2015) Céline Petitjean et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Intercellular wiring enables electron transfer between methanotrophic archaea and bacteria

(2015) Gunter Wegener et al.   NATURE

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

New substitution models for rooting phylogenetic trees

(2015) Tom A. Williams et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The two-domain tree of life is linked to a new root for the Archaea

(2015) Kasie Raymann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Methane metabolism in the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota revealed by genome-centric metagenomics

(2015) P. N. Evans et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic and transcriptomic evidence for scavenging of diverse organic compounds by widespread deep-sea archaea

(2015) Meng Li et al.   Nature Communications

New Mode of Energy Metabolism in the Seventh Order of Methanogens as Revealed by Comparative Genome Analysis of “Candidatus Methanoplasma termitum”

(2014) Kristina Lang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine

(2014) Guillaume Borrel et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Global Phylogenomic Analysis Disentangles the Complex Evolutionary History of DNA Replication in Archaea

(2014) Kasie Raymann et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Archaeal “Dark Matter” and the Origin of Eukaryotes

(2014) Tom A. Williams et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Rooting the Domain Archaea by Phylogenomic Analysis Supports the Foundation of the New Kingdom Proteoarchaeota

(2014) Céline Petitjean et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Crenarchaeal heterotrophy in salt marsh sediments

(2014) Lauren M Seyler et al.   ISME Journal

‘Geoarchaeote NAG1’ is a deeply rooting lineage of the archaeal order Thermoproteales rather than a new phylum

(2014) Lionel Guy et al.   ISME Journal

A new class of marine Euryarchaeota group II from the mediterranean deep chlorophyll maximum

(2014) Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado et al.   ISME Journal

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

(2014) Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.   NATURE

Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

(2014) Pablo Yarza et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Discovery of a novel methanogen prevalent in thawing permafrost

(2014) Rhiannon Mondav et al.   Nature Communications

Biology of a widespread uncultivated archaeon that contributes to carbon fixation in the subsurface

(2014) Alexander J. Probst et al.   Nature Communications

Unique Characteristics of the Pyrrolysine System in the 7th Order of Methanogens: Implications for the Evolution of a Genetic Code Expansion Cassette

(2014) Guillaume Borrel et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

PhyloSift: phylogenetic analysis of genomes and metagenomes

(2014) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PeerJ

Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles

(2013) Pierre Offre et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Phylogenomic Data Support a Seventh Order of Methylotrophic Methanogens and Provide Insights into the Evolution of Methanogenesis

(2013) Guillaume Borrel et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Niche specialization of novel Thaumarchaeota to oxic and hypoxic acidic geothermal springs of Yellowstone National Park

(2013) Jacob P Beam et al.   ISME Journal

Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated MCG archaea assessed by metagenome and gene expression analyses

(2013) Jun Meng et al.   ISME Journal

Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola: a Novel Methanogen from the Anaerobic Digested Sludge, and Proposal of Methanomassiliicoccaceae fam. nov. and Methanomassiliicoccales ord. nov., for a Methanogenic Lineage of the Class Thermoplasmata

(2013) Takao Iino et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

(2013) Christian Rinke et al.   NATURE

Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins

(2013) Karen G. Lloyd et al.   NATURE

Metagenomics of Kamchatkan hot spring filaments reveal two new major (hyper)thermophilic lineages related to Thaumarchaeota

(2013) Laura Eme et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

A Branch-Heterogeneous Model of Protein Evolution for Efficient Inference of Ancestral Sequences

(2013) M. Groussin et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Lateral Gene Transfer from the Dead

(2013) Gergely J. Szöllősi et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

“Methanoplasmatales,” Thermoplasmatales-Related Archaea in Termite Guts and Other Environments, Are the Seventh Order of Methanogens

(2012) Kristina Paul et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a methanogenic archaeon isolated from human faeces

(2012) B. Dridi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Geoarchaeota: a new candidate phylum in the Archaea from high-temperature acidic iron mats in Yellowstone National Park

(2012) Mark A Kozubal et al.   ISME Journal

Archaea of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group are abundant, diverse and widespread in marine sediments

(2012) Kyoko Kubo et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogenomics of Prokaryotic Ribosomal Proteins

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   PLoS One

Correlating microbial community profiles with geochemical data in highly stratified sediments from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge

(2012) S. L. Jorgensen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic modeling of lateral gene transfer reconstructs the pattern and relative timing of speciations

(2012) G. J. Szollosi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes: Revealing an Uncultured Class of Marine Euryarchaeota

(2012) V. Iverson et al.   SCIENCE

Time for order in microbial systematics

(2012) Simonetta Gribaldo et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

(2011) Michael Pester et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: one hundred genomes later

(2011) Celine Brochier-Armanet et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

De novo metagenomic assembly reveals abundant novel major lineage of Archaea in hypersaline microbial communities

(2011) Priya Narasingarao et al.   ISME Journal

The archaeal cell envelope

(2011) Sonja-Verena Albers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes

(2011) Lionel Guy et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group

(2010) Takuro Nunoura et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea

(2010) B. J. Baker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenome and mRNA expression analyses of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea of the ANME-1 group

(2009) Anke Meyerdierks et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov.

(2008) S. Sakai et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

(2008) Céline Brochier-Armanet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

(2008) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY