Thaumarchaeota

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See also: thaumarchaeota

Translingual

Competing hypotheses about relationships of groups in Archaea, including Thaumarcheota

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θαῦμα (thaûma, “wonder”) +‎ Archaea +‎ -ota.

Proper noun

Thaumarchaeota

Chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizers that may play important roles in biogeochemical cycles, such as the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle.
1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota.

Synonyms

(phylum): Thaumarchaea, Nitrosphaerota

Hypernyms

(phylum): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Archaea – superkingdom; Crenarchaeota – phylum

Hyponyms

(phylum): Cenarchaeales, Nitrosocaldales, Nitrosopumilales - orders
(class): Cenarchaeales - order

References

Thaumarchaeota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Thaumarchaeota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Archaea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Archaea at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
Brochier-Armanet, C. et al. (2008) “Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota”, in Nature Reviews Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI, pages 245–252

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