The biodiversity of the Earth never ceases to astonish. One example that has radically changed the face of biology is the discovery of a group of organisms called archaea (pronounced “ar-kee-ah”). It ...

Members of the domain Archaea are diverse and widespread, being found not only in extreme environments, such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents, but also in a range of moderate and aerobic ...

Just call them archaea (ar-kee-uh) - archaebacteria are no more. Archaea were once considered to be quite similar to bacteria, but these prokaryotes are just weird enough to be classified in their own ...

To date, species of the genus Sulfolobus have served as the main model organisms for investigations of the cell cycle in archaea. Archaea have circular chromosomes with single or multiple replication ...