Thaumarchaeota
See also: thaumarchaeota
Translingual
Etymology
In part, from Ancient Greek θαῦμα (thaûma, “wonder”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
Thaumarchaeota
- Chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizers that may play important roles in biogeochemical cycles, such as the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle.
Synonyms
- (phylum): Thaumarchaea, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.
Hypernyms
- (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Archaea - superkingdom; Crenarchaeota - phylum
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Cenarchaeales, Nitrosocaldales, Nitrosopumilales - orders
- (class): Cenarchaeales - order
References
- Thaumarchaeota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Thaumarchaeota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Archaea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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- Brochier-Armanet, C. et al. (2008) “Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota”, in Nature Reviews Microbiology, volume 6, , pages 245–252