Candidatus Augarchaeota

"Candidatus Augarchaeota"
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Thermoproteati
Phylum:
corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011
Order
  • "Ca. Caldarchaeales"
Synonyms
  • "Ca. Aigarchaeota" Nunoura et al. 2011
  • "Ca. Aigarchaeales"
  • "Caldiarchaeales" Cavalier-Smith 2014

"Candidatus Augarchaeota" (previously "Candidatus Aigarchaeota"[1]) is a proposed archaeal phylum of which the main representative is "Candidatus Caldiarchaeum subterraneum".[2] It is not yet clear if this represents a new phylum or a Nitrososphaeria order, since the genome of "Candidatus Caldiarchaeum subterraneum" encodes several Nitrososphaeria-like features.[3] The name "Candidatus Aigarchaeota" comes from the Greek αυγή, avgí, meaning "dawn" or "aurora", for the intermediate features of hyperthermophilic and mesophilic life during the evolution of its lineage.[2] The prefix Aig was found to be a misspelling, and corrected to Aug, thereby the new name "Candidatus Augarchaeota".[4]

  1. ^ Brochier-Armanet, Celine; Forterre, Patrick; Gribaldo, Simonetta (2011-06-01). "Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: one hundred genomes later". Current Opinion in Microbiology. Ecology and industrial microbiology / Special section: Archaea. 14 (3): 274–281. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2011.04.015. ISSN 1369-5274.
  2. ^ a b Nunoura, T; Takaki, Y; Kakuta, J; Nishi, S; Sugahara, J; Kazama, H; Chee, GJ; Hattori, M; Kanai, A; Atomi, H; Takai, K; Takami, H (April 2011). "Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group". Nucleic Acids Research. 39 (8): 3204–23. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1228. PMC 3082918. PMID 21169198..
  3. ^ Brochier-Armanet, Celine; Forterre, Patrick; Gribaldo, Simonetta (June 2011). "Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: One hundred genomes later". Current Opinion in Microbiology. 14 (3): 274–281. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2011.04.015. PMID 21632276..
  4. ^ Göker, Markus; Oren, Aharon (2024). "Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 74 (1): 006242. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006242. ISSN 1466-5034. PMID 38252124.