Asgardarchaeota

Taxonavigation

Cladus: Neomura
Superregnum: Archaea
Phylum: Asgardarchaeota
Classes: Asgardarchaeia - Atabeyarchaeia - Freyarchaeia - Promethearchaeia

Name

Asgardarchaeota (ex Rinke et al., 2021; Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017) Tamarit et al., 2024

References

Primary references

• Tamarit, Köstlbacher, Appler, Panagiotou, de Anda, Rinke, Baker, Ettema. 2024: Description of Asgardarchaeum abyssi gen. nov. spec. nov., a novel species within the class Asgardarchaeia and phylum Asgardarchaeota in accordance with the SeqCode. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2024.126525
• Rinke, Chuvochina, Mussig, Chaumeil, Davín, Waite, Whitman, Parks, Hugenholtz. 2021: A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nature Microbiology. DOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-00918-8
• Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Caceres, Saw, Bäckström, Juzokaite, Vancaester, Seitz, Anantharaman, Starnawski, Kjeldsen, Stott, Nunoura, Banfield, Schramm, Baker, Spang, Ettema. 2017: Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature21031
• Da Cunha, Gaia, Gadelle, Nasir, Forterre. 2017: Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. PLOS Genetics. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006810

Links

• Asgardarchaeota – Taxon details on SeqCode Registry (Registry for The Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data).

Vernacular names

English: Asgard archaea
español: Arqueas Asgard
français: archées d'Asgård