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Euryarchaeota

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  • proper noun A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea — many extremophile bacteria.

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Ancient Greek eury broad + archae old + -otes quality

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  • These support a history of mainly vertical inheritance for the components of this unique motility system, and an interesting possible ancient horizontal gene transfer event HGT of a whole flagellum-coding gene cluster between Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota.

    Current Biology on flagellum evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • The scientists found that the core metabolic genes were most closely related to those already found in a different type of Euryarchaeota.

    NYT > Home Page By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2012

  • The creature is Euryarchaeota, one of the archaea, a class of micro-organisms that were once thought to be bacteria but are actually quite distinct.

    NYT > Home Page By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2012

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