Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea

BJ Baker, LR Comolli, GJ Dick… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
ultrasmall archaeal parasite Nanoarchaeum equitans has only 552 genes and requires a
connection to its archaeal … unique, uncultivated lineages of ultrasmall Archaea by combining …

Nano-sized and filterable bacteria and archaea: biodiversity and function

LAJ Ghuneim, DL Jones, PN Golyshin… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… Though the different characterization techniques as mentioned above, the story of ultra-small
microorganisms and our understanding of their ecosystem functioning is rapidly evolving. …

Biology of a widespread uncultivated archaeon that contributes to carbon fixation in the subsurface

AJ Probst, T Weinmaier, K Raymann, A Perras… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
… SM1 Euryarchaeon lineage, an uncultivated group of subsurface archaea. Phylogenomic
analyses reveal this lineage to belong to a widespread group of archaea that we propose to …

Ultra-small bacteria and archaea exhibit genetic flexibility towards groundwater oxygen content, and adaptations for attached or planktonic lifestyles

E Gios, OE Mosley, L Weaver, M Close… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… and DPANN archaea, and indicate that prokaryotes with ultra-small … We provide insights into
the activity of ultra-small prokaryotes … Ultra-small prokaryotes exhibited genetic flexibility with …

Perspectives on cultivation strategies of archaea

Y Sun, Y Liu, J Pan, F Wang, M Li - Microbial ecology, 2020 - Springer
… that could improve archaeal cultivation in the future. We first summarize the current knowledge
on archaeal diversity, with an emphasis on cultivated and uncultivated lineages pertinent …

Challenges and approaches of culturing the unculturable archaea

M Rafiq, N Hassan, M Rehman, M Hayat, G Nadeem… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
archaea is complicated, but several queries about archaealarchaea isolation and discusses
features for more archaeal … and available media for archaeal culturing, which might be …

A predicted CRISPR-mediated symbiosis between uncultivated archaea

SP Esser, J Rahlff, W Zhao, M Predl, J Plewka… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… small in size and enigmatic due to the scarcity of cultivated representatives 10,11 .
Insights into the physiological characteristics of DPANN archaea arise primarily from detailed …

Size matters: ultra-small and filterable microorganisms in the environment

R Nakai - Microbes and environments, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… In this review, archaea with a cell volume of <0.1 μm 3 are specifically referred to as … of the
members of CPR and DPANN are uncultivated, with a few exceptions of members belonging …

Metabolic versatility of small archaea Micrarchaeota and Parvarchaeota

LX Chen, C Méndez-García, N Dombrowski… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… Despite their small genomes (0.64–1.08 Mb), these archaea may … our understanding of these
elusive archaea by revealing their … The ultra-small cells were collected by filtering the AMD …

[HTML][HTML] The bright side of microbial dark matter: lessons learned from the uncultivated majority

L Solden, K Lloyd, K Wrighton - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
… metabolic predictions for previously enigmatic CP organisms. … transmission microscopy
revealed ultra small cells at the … that for many CPR and some uncultivated archaeal phyla [1] …