thaumarchaea

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Noun

thaumarchaea (countable and uncountable, plural thaumarchaea)

  1. Any archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeotaws, or the phylum as a whole.
    Synonym: thaumarchaeote
    • 2014, Eldor Paul, Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry, page 60:
      Archaea that contain these genes are now placed within a separate phylogenetic group, the thaumarchaea.
    • 2015 September 2, “Insights into the Microbial and Viral Dynamics of a Coastal Downwelling-Upwelling Transition”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      Three exceptions to the bacterial dominance are noteworthy, having increased with the upwelling: Nitrosopumilus maritimus, a thaumarchaea; Thalassiosira pseudonana, a centric diatom; and Ostreococcus lucimarinus, a picoeukaryote (Fig 3, S2 Table).
    • 2019, JG Kim, “Spindle-shaped viruses infect marine ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaea”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Previous studies have suggested that, like all microbes, thaumarchaea are infected by viruses and that viral predation has a profound impact on thaumarchaeal functioning and mortality, thereby regulating global biogeochemical cycles.

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