Korarchaeota

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Korarchaeota are a deeply branching, poorly understood lineage of Archaea typically found in high-temperature environments and known mainly from environmental DNA rather than cultivated representatives.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeal phylum
microbial lineage
carbonSource likely heterotrophic or mixotrophic
cellType prokaryote
cellularity unicellular
cellWall archaeal cell envelope
cultivationStatus few or no stable laboratory cultures
poorly cultivated
dataAvailability limited cultured representatives
primarily sequence-based records
discoveryMethod 16S rRNA gene surveys
environmental DNA sequencing
distribution various geothermal regions worldwide
domain Archaea
energySource chemotrophic
environment high-temperature environments
hot springs
hydrothermal systems
marine hydrothermal vents
firstDescriptionPeriod 1990s
geneticDiversity high sequence divergence from other Archaea
genomeSource metagenome-assembled genomes
single-cell amplified genomes
habitat geothermal environments
importance key to understanding early archaeal evolution
isA deeply branching archaeal lineage
thermophilic archaeal group
kingdom Archaea
knownFrom environmental DNA
lipidType ether-linked membrane lipids
metabolism anaerobic
thermophilic
nucleicAcidType DNA
oxygenRequirement often anaerobic or microaerophilic
phylogeneticMarker 16S rRNA gene sequences
phylogeneticPosition deep-branching within Archaea
reproduction asexual reproduction
researchStatus known mainly from molecular data
poorly understood
rRNAType 16S rRNA
studyField evolutionary microbiology
microbial ecology
taxonomicRank phylum
temperaturePreference high temperature

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Archaea
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