Even its ancestry is an enigma. Phylogenetic trees place Sukunaarchaeum as a “deep-branching” member of the domain Archaea—one of life’s three great domains that includes extremophiles and gave rise ...

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Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to the surface, only to eventually drift down again into the darkness in a perpetual rhythm. Yet, how single-celled phytoplankton, most ...

In an article published in Nature Microbiology, scientists reveal the existence of numerous new lineages of mirusviruses, ...