A recent study has shown that they also have the potential to fix inorganic carbon—in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2)— to generate acetate, an important fuel for other sediment-dwelling organisms ...

Marine environments, particularly deep ocean sediments, were found to harbor high abundances of archaea, which thrive in low-energy conditions. Meanwhile, terrestrial environments, such as caves ...

This is particularly true for marine environments and for microbes in the Archaea domain,” added Ruff. They also noted that there’s a gulf of difference between the marine microbes and their ...

Importantly, 189 partial or complete 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase gene sequences were found after searching the Global Ocean Sampling dataset; mesophilic marine archaea that fix carbon by this ...

Since the late 1980s, all life forms have been split into three groups on the phylogenetic tree of life: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes and archaea have long been considered “sister ...