Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota Export

@article{citeulike:2385342, abstract = {The archaeal domain is currently divided into two major phyla, the Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota. During the past few years, diverse groups of uncultivated mesophilic archaea have been discovered and affiliated with the Crenarchaeota. It was recently recognized that these archaea have a major role in geochemical cycles. Based on the first genome sequence of a crenarchaeote, Cenarchaeum symbiosum, we show that these mesophilic archaea are different from hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeota and branch deeper than was previously assumed. Our results indicate that C. symbiosum and its relatives are not Crenarchaeota, but should be considered as a third archaeal phylum, which we propose to name Thaumarchaeota (from the Greek 'thaumas', meaning wonder).}, author = {Brochier-Armanet, Celine and Boussau, Bastien and Gribaldo, Simonetta and Forterre, Patrick}, citeulike-article-id = {2385342}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1852}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1852}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18274537}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18274537}, day = {01}, doi = {10.1038/nrmicro1852}, issn = {1740-1526}, journal = {Nat Rev Micro}, keywords = {archaea}, month = {March}, number = {3}, pages = {245--252}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 11:43:45}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1852}, volume = {6}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2385342 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2385342 N2 - The archaeal domain is currently divided into two major phyla, the Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota. During the past few years, diverse groups of uncultivated mesophilic archaea have been discovered and affiliated with the Crenarchaeota. It was recently recognized that these archaea have a major role in geochemical cycles. Based on the first genome sequence of a crenarchaeote, Cenarchaeum symbiosum, we show that these mesophilic archaea are different from hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeota and branch deeper than was previously assumed. Our results indicate that C. symbiosum and its relatives are not Crenarchaeota, but should be considered as a third archaeal phylum, which we propose to name Thaumarchaeota (from the Greek 'thaumas', meaning wonder). IS - 3 JF - Nat Rev Micro SN - 1740-1526 EP - 252 TI - Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 6 SP - 245 KW - archaea AU - Brochier-Armanet, Celine AU - Boussau, Bastien AU - Gribaldo, Simonetta AU - Forterre, Patrick PY - 2008/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1852 ER -