Tag: "archaeal" at biology news
From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea
...just now beginning to focus on the large number of archaeal
species that inhabit more mundane environments, in...d a type of lipid, or oily compound, found only in archaeal
cell membranes. This finding indicates that an archaean community may have inhabited the region more...
Gut reaction: Researchers define the colon's genome
...ms: a bacterium, Bifidobacterium longum , and the archaeal
microbe M. smithii . These known organisms showed...iple strains of B. longum , and a majority of its archaeal
species is related M. smithii. How many unique bacterial genera or species exist in the colon commu...
Gut microbes' partnership helps body extract energy from food, store it as fat
...sor. "As adults, the number of these bacterial and archaeal
microbial cells exceeds the number of our human cells by tenfold. The genes present in this community of 10-100 trillion bugs vastly outnumber our own genes and are a key part of our genetic landscape, providing us with attributes we have not had to ...
Ammonia-loving archaea win landslide majority
...hleper. The tally suggested that copies of the archaeal
gene in the soil samples were up to 3,000 times more abundant than copies of the bacterial gene. High amounts of lipids specific to crenarchaeota confirmed the organism's presence. At Penn State, Schuster used a novel technique to directly sequen...
The structure of a virus infecting bacteria resembles a human virus
...between a double-stranded DNA bacteriophage and an archaeal
DOE JGI releases IMG 1.5 with curated archaeal genomes
...ources. Towards this goal, IMG 1.5 now contains 22 archaeal
genomes with curated gene models and detailed documentation of the methodology and standards employed for achieving this goal. A separate IMG Curated Archaeal Genomes data mart ( http://img.jgi.doe.gov/archaeal_qa/ ) contains these genomes with thei...
A salty tale: New bacterial genome sequenced from ancient salterns
...parently also borrowed some genes from neighboring archaeal
species, in an unusual example of cross-domain lat...d the other through lateral gene transfer from the archaeal
species also living in the salterns." This study is the first to document bacteria adopting the arch...