Thaumarchaeota

See also: thaumarchaeota

Translingual

Competing hypotheses about relationships of groups in Archaea, including Thaumarcheota

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θαῦμα (thaûma, “wonder”) +‎ Archaea +‎ -ota.

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
• 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