Archaea come in various shapes, from cocci to filaments. However, unlike the cell shape determinants in bacteria, the factors that are important in cell shape determination in archaea are not well ...

Proposed model for structural and regulatory components of Hfx. volcanii cell-shape determination. Proteins in yellow are predicted or likely cytoskeletal elements, those in blue are predicted ...

Just call them archaea (ar-kee-uh) - archaebacteria are no more. Archaea were once considered to be quite similar to bacteria, but these prokaryotes are just weird enough to be classified in their own ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms -- and they're not just bacteria. A study has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving ...

When you get infected with a virus, some of the first weapons your body deploys to fight it were passed down to us from our microbial ancestors billions of years ago. According to new research from ...