garden/archaea.md

Archaea

• Different from bacteria in the generation of the cell membrane
• All prokaryotic
• More closely related to eukarya than bacteria
• Newer findings imply that Lokiarchaeota are closer than the tack-supergroup to eukarya
• Vast majority are non-extremophile

Taxonomy

• Archaea
  • Euryarchaeota
  • Proteoarchaeota
    • tack-supergroup
      • Korarchaeota
      • TC MRCA
        • Thaumarchaeota
        • Crenarchaeota
    • Lokiarchaeota
      • Loki1/Loki2
      • Loki3/Eukarya