Thaumarchaeota

See also: thaumarchaeota

Translingual

Competing hypotheses about relationships of groups in Archaea, including Thaumarcheota

Etymology

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Proper noun

Thaumarchaeota

Chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizers that may play important roles in biogeochemical cycles, such as the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle.
1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea.
2. (in italics: Thaumarchaeota) A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota.

Synonyms

(phylum): Thaumarchaea

Hypernyms

(phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Archaea - superkingdom; Crenarchaeota - phylum

Hyponyms

(phylum): Cenarchaeales, Nitrosocaldales, Nitrosopumilales - orders
(class): Cenarchaeales - order

References

Thaumarchaeota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Thaumarchaeota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Archaea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Archaea at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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