Discover Life - Archaea - Archaeans, Methanogens, Halophiles, Sulfolobus

Archaea Archaeans; Methanogens; Halophiles; Sulfolobus

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Higher taxa: Life Archaea

Global map

IDnature guide: Groups_other

Kinds
Euryarchaeota

Overview
Unicellular organisms lacking a nucleus and lacking peptidoglycan in the cell wall. Once grouped with the bacteria, archaeans possess distinctive membrane lipids.

Phylogeny

Tree of Life

Links to other sites

Introduction to the Archaea, University of California Museum of Paleontology
Archaea and Other Extremists, Microbe World
ArchaeaWeb, Neil Saunders, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature -- Information on prokaryotes.
Ribosomal Database Project II -- Analysis tools for prokaryotes.

Acknowledgements

Ashley MacDonald, University of Georgia, Athens
Amberlie McKee, University of Georgia, Athens

I thank John Pickering for his assistance with the development of this page.