Korarchaeota

Korarchaeota
Scanning electron micrograph of the Obsidian Pool enrichment culture, showing Korarchaeota.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
"Proteoarchaeota"
Superphylum:
TACK
Phylum:
"Korarchaeota"

Barns et al. 1996
Class:
"Korarchaeia"

Rinke et al. 2020[1]
Order:
"Korarchaeales"

Petitjean et al. 2015[2]
Family:
"Korarchaeaceae"

Rinke et al. 2020
Species
Synonyms
  • "Xenarchaea"
  • "Xenarchaeota"

The Korarchaeota is a proposed phylum within the Archaea.[3] The name is derived from the Greek noun koros or kore, meaning young man or young woman, and the Greek adjective archaios which means ancient.[4] They are also known as Xenarchaeota. The name is equivalent to Candidatus Korarchaeota, and they go by the name Xenarchaeota or Xenarchaea as well.[5]

  1. ^ Resolving widespread incomplete and uneven archaeal classifications based on a rank-normalized genome-based taxonomy
  2. ^ Rooting the Domain Archaea by Phylogenomic Analysis Supports the Foundation of the New Kingdom Proteoarchaeota
  3. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Korarchaeota. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  4. ^ Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, et al. (June 2008). "A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105 (23): 8102–8107. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.8102E. doi:10.1073/pnas.0801980105. PMC 2430366. PMID 18535141.
  5. ^ Boone DR, Brenner DJ, Castenholz RW, De Vos P, Garrity GM, Krieg NR, Goodfellow M (2001). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-21609-6. OCLC 619443681.