History of Archaea: Our nice ancient neighbors ("Grandpa, is that you?")

Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our first episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Connor Hines talk about the history of Archaea, how we discovered that they were different from bacteria, and discuss their unique classification.

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For nomenclature changes, current nomenclature can be found at: https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/genome?gid=GCA_003086455.1

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Bibliography:

Singer, Charles J. (1931). A short history of biology, a general introduction to the study of living things. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Woese, Carl R., Otto Kandler, and Mark L. Wheelis. "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya." Proceedings of the Nation ...