Dick, Gregory J.


Publications
2

Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea

Citation
Baker et al. (2010). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (19)
Names
Ca. Micrarchaeum Ca. Micrarchaeum acidiphilum
Abstract
Metagenomics has provided access to genomes of as yet uncultivated microorganisms in natural environments, yet there are gaps in our knowledge—particularly for Archaea—that occur at relatively low abundance and in extreme environments. Ultrasmall cells (<500 nm in diameter) from lineages without cultivated representatives that branch near the crenarchaeal/euryarchaeal divide have been detected in a variety of acidic ecosystems. We reconstructed composite, near-complete ~1-Mb geno