However, archaea are also common in the human microbiome and as an important part of soil ecology. “As temperature is a major driver of biological processes, climate warming will impact various ...

Dorsaf Kerfahi, Binu M. Tripathi, J. W. Ferry Slik, Rahayu S. Sukri, Salwana Jaafar, Jonathan M. Adams, Distinctive Soil Archaeal Communities in Different Variants of Tropical Equatorial Forest, ...

Nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture contribute significantly to global warming. A new breeding concept, specifically for ...

To quantify the presence of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in soil, Christa Schleper at the University of Bergen and colleagues sifted through 12 types of soil from three climate zones for amoA - a ...

Methane, for instance, is a greenhouse gas that is naturally produced by soil archaea called methanogens, which Zeng studies at the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology at ...

Nature favors creatures in largest and smallest sizes Life comes in all shapes and sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others Date: May 15, 2023 Source: McGill University Summary ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new and ...

Archaea, key players in the human microbiome, are linked to various diseases but their pathogenic potential remains speculative. This study highlights their role in conditions like periodontitis ...