Proteoarchaeota

Proteoarchaeota
Archaea Sulfolobus infected with specific virus STSV-1.
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Proteoarchaeota
Petitjean et al. 2014
Phyla

Proteoarchaeota are a proposed archaeal kingdom.

Classification

The phylogenetic relationship of this group is still under discussion. The relationship of the members is approximately as follows:[1][2][3]

 Proteoarchaeota 

 "TACK" 


"Korarchaeota"




Crenarchaeota





"Aigarchaeota"



"Geoarchaeota"





Thaumarchaeota



"Bathyarchaeota"






"Asgard"



"Lokiarchaeota"



"Odinarchaeota"



"Thorarchaeota"





"Heimdallarchaeota"


 + Megavirales?, α─Proteobacteria 

Eukaryota





Further reading

  1. Anja Spang et al. 2015. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 521, 173–179 (14 May 2015) doi:10.1038/nature14447
  2. Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2016-2017, Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 541, 353–358 (19 January 2017) doi:10.1038/nature21031
  3. Patrick Forterre, Morgan Gaïa: Giant viruses and the origin of modern eukaryotes, in: Current Opinion in Microbiology 31, June 2016, 44-49, DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2016.02.001
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