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Microbiology Today: Archaea
From extreme temperatures and highly acidic conditions to the insides of volcanoes and the depths of the ocean, a diverse group of microbes called archaea thrive in many places that most life can't survive. This issue of Microbiology Today highlights the importance of archaea and our current understanding of them. Why don’t archaea cause disease? Are there really no archaeal pathogens? And if not, why not? Dr James Chong explores these questions in a film and article for Microbiology Today. Archaea and the Tree of Life
The third domain of life wasn’t even discovered until the 1970s. This mysterious group of organisms, archaea, remain one of the biggest puzzles in microbiology.