While previous research had described bidirectional promoters in eukaryotes, as well as in a few bacteria and archaea species, the new study establishes divergent transcription—the reading of genes in ...

It was only then that they realised they were dealing with a previously unknown group of archaea. Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms. Genetically, however, there are significant ...

Bacteria form one of the three domains of life; the others are archaea and eukaryotes. Bacterial species and their habitats exhibit great diversity. A low-carbohydrate diet or host mismatch-repair ...

But if hyper-resilient bacteria and archaea can exist in extreme below ... "It needs energy and a place to be, so it needs a habitat." Earth's mysterious ground-dwelling microbes could help ...

now report a fifth pathway that is used by archaea from diverse habitats. The best-known autotrophic ... is found in anaerobic or microaerophilic bacteria and archaea. A third autotrophic pathway ...

an important fuel for other sediment-dwelling organisms such as methanogens (which include marine archaea) and heterotrophic bacteria. The products of these organisms feed back into the carbon cycle ...