Meaning of thaumarchaea | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of the phylum Thaumarchaeota of archaebacteria, or the phylum as a whole.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Archaea that contain these genes are now placed within a separate phylogenetic group, the thaumarchaea.”

“Three exceptions to the bacterial dominance are noteworthy, having increased with the upwelling: Nitrosopumilus maritimus, a thaumarchaea; Thalassiosira pseudonana, a centric diatom; and Ostreococcus lucimarinus, a picoeukaryote (Fig 3, S2 Table).”

“Previous studies have suggested that, like all microbes, thaumarchaea are infected by viruses and that viral predation has a profound impact on thaumarchaeal functioning and mortality, thereby regulating global biogeochemical cycles.”

CEFR level