Archaea

古細菌ドメイン

Kingdom

Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater

The existence of archaea in the oceans has been known for a long time. However, they were only discovered in the North Sea in the beginning of the 21st century. Archaea resemble normal bacteria, but are very different internally. They can live under extreme conditions: there are archaea known to live in boiling water! Archaea play an important role in the nitrogen cycle in the North Sea. These organisms are capable of changing ammonia into nitrite. One liter of seawater by Texel contains 5 to 45 million archaea. They are found particularly in the winter, when there is too little light for algae to grow.

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Specimen records

46

With media

33

Family

Archaeidae

Collections

SAM, UHIM, MCZ

Recorded in

South Africa, United States, Madagascar

• Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases.ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology · 2024Musat F, Kjeldsen KU, Rotaru AE et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2024.102486
• DPANN archaea.ReviewCurrent biology : CB · 2025Huang WC, Spang ADOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.038
• Archaea: current and potential biotechnological applications.ReviewResearch in microbiology · 2023Aparici-Carratalá D, Esclapez J, Bautista V et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2023.104080
• Archaea communities in aerobic granular sludge: A mini-review.ReviewThe Science of the total environment · 2024Yan A, Pan Z, Liang Y et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174974
• Ammonia-oxidizing archaea in biological interactions.ReviewJournal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2021Kim JG, Gazi KS, Awala SI et al.DOI: 10.1007/s12275-021-1005-z
• Archaea in the Human Microbiome and Potential Effects on Human Infectious Disease.ReviewEmerging infectious diseases · 2024Duller S, Moissl-Eichinger CDOI: 10.3201/eid3008.240181
• Archaea influence composition of endoscopically visible ileocolonic biofilms.Gut microbes · 2024Orgler E, Baumgartner M, Duller S et al.DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2024.2359500
• Diversity of Archaea.ReviewProgress in molecular and subcellular biology · 2026Kimiran A, Çağ MM, Doğruöz Güngör NDOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-11438-9_3

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Subclass of

microorganism

Parent taxon

Monera

Image

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