Aigarchaeota

Aigarchaeota
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
"Proteoarchaeota"
Superphylum:
TACK
Phylum:
"Aigarchaeota"

Nunoura et al. 2011
Order:
"Caldarchaeales"

Rinke et al. 2020[1]
Families
  • "Caldarchaeaceae"
  • "Wolframiiraptoraceae"

The "Aigarchaeota" are a proposed archaeal phylum of which the main representative is Caldiarchaeum subterraneum.[2] It is not yet clear if this represents a new phylum or a Nitrososphaerota order, since the genome of Caldiarchaeum subterraneum encodes several Nitrososphaerota-like features.[3] The name "Aigarchaeota" comes from the Greek αυγή, avgí, meaning "dawn" or "aurora", for the intermediate features of hyperthermophilic and mesophilic life during the evolution of its lineage.[2]

  1. ^ (2020) Christian Rinke, Maria Chuvochina, Aaron J. Mussig, Pierre-Alain Chaumeil, Adrian A. Davin, David W. Waite, William B Whitman, Donovan H. Parks, Philip Hugenholtz, Resolving widespread incomplete and uneven archaeal classifications based on a rank-normalized genome-based taxonomy
  2. ^ a b Nunoura, T; Takaki, Y; Kakuta, J; Nishi, S; Sugahara, J; Kazama, H; Chee, GJ; Hattori, M; Kanai, A; Atomi, H; Takai, K; Takami, H (April 2011). "Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group". Nucleic Acids Research. 39 (8): 3204–23. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1228. PMC 3082918. PMID 21169198..
  3. ^ Brochier-Armanet, Celine; Forterre, Patrick; Gribaldo, Simonetta (June 2011). "Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: One hundred genomes later". Current Opinion in Microbiology. 14 (3): 274–281. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2011.04.015. PMID 21632276..