Archaea «
http://www.archaea.ws/ | | Microbiological journal devoted to original research on the archaea. author guide , publication schedule , and text of older articles. |
Archaea «
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/archaea.html | | Introduction to this life form , written at three different levels of complexity for use by educators and students. |
Archaea «
http://www.microbe.org/microbes/archaea.asp | | Short , simple introduction to these organisms. |
Archaea (Archaebacteria) «
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Archaea&contgroup=Life | | Taxonomy , description , and extensive references , with particular emphasis on the crenarchaeota (classified here as a kingdom. ) |
Archaeal Diversity «
http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/index.php?name=Sections&req=listarticles&secid=10 | | Online textbook chapter from the university of wisconsin , discussing various species and touching on some of the molecular characteristics that separate them from other life forms. |
ArchaeaWeb «
http://www.archaea.unsw.edu.au/ | | Links to popular press and journal articles , research news , and other sources of information about archaea and extremophiles. includes user comments. |
ARCHAIC (ARCHAebacterial Information Collection) «
http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/archaic/ | | Genome sequences of three euryarchaeota species , pyrococcus sp. ot3 , thermoplasma volcanium gss1 , and archaeoglobus fulgidus , and related papers by the research group. |
BBC News: Toughest Bug Reveals Genetic Secrets «
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/399972.stm | | Reports the decoding of the pyrococcus abyssi , which lives in the intense pressure and temperature of black smoker vents on the seafloor. |
Distribution of Archaea in a Black Smoker Chimney Structure «
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/67/8/3618 | | Analysis of different communities in varied microhabitats of a deep-sea vent. journal article from applied and environmental microbiology |
Domain Archaea «
http://trishul.sci.gu.edu.au/~bharat/courses/ss13bmm/archaea.html | | Basic phylogeny , gene organization , and methods of dna replication and transcription. |
Domain Archaea «
http://comenius.susqu.edu/bi/202/ARCHAEA/ | | Systematic discussion of the various phyla within the crenarchaea , euryarchaeota , based on rna differences. |
Genome News Network: New Amino acid Discovered in Methanosarcina barkeri «
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/05_02/amino_acid.shtml | | Reports on the discovery of a new amino acid , pyrrolysine , coded by uag (normally a stop codon) in this methanogen. |
German Jurgens: Molecular phylogeny of Archaea in boreal forest soil, freshwater and temperate estuarine sediment «
http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/maa/skemi/vk/jurgens/ | | Academic thesis on the unexpected organisms discovered by ribosomal analysis of non-extreme soil and water samples. |
Halobacteria «
http://www.science.siu.edu/microbiology/micr425/425Notes/09-Halobact.html | | Detailed discussion of the molecules involved in their cytoplasmic and photosynthetic membrane lipids , structural glycoproteins , ionic relationships , and photosynthetic cycle. |
Horikoshi Superbugs «
http://www.jst.go.jp/erato/project/htkb_P/htkb_P.html | | Summary of interesting organisms discovered during a search for extremophiles , including a picture of the triangular halophile haloarcula japonicus. |
