An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

The researchers also did not find evidence of chitin or chitosan molecules in the cell walls of all extinct ... entirely extinct group of eukaryotes.” All living organisms on Earth belong ...

Remarkably, Asgard archaea turned out to be more than just a new type of microbe: they may represent an evolutionary bridge between archaea and eukaryotes, the domain that includes all organisms with ...

The twilight zone is an important depth of the ocean where particulate organic matter (POM) remineralization takes place, and prokaryotes contribute to more than 70% of the estimated remineralization.