Thaumarchaeota

See also: thaumarchaeota

Translingual

Competing hypotheses about relationships of groups in Archaea, including Thaumarcheota

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

1. Chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizers that may play important roles in biogeochemical cycles, such as the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle.
   1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea.
   2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota.

Synonyms

• (phylum): Thaumarchaea, Nitrosphaerota

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
• Archaea at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
• Brochier-Armanet, C. et al. (2008) “Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota”, in Nature Reviews Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI, pages 245–252