The genomes of giant viruses, such as the recently discovered Mimivirus that infects amoebae, are larger than the genomes of many bacteria and some archaea (Raoult & Forterre 2008). Viruses ...

Today, very little is known about how living archaea protect themselves from threats like bacteria or viruses, so it's difficult to explore such hypotheses in any detail. Researchers at UT have ...

The viruses that infect Asgard archaea are unique from those that have been described before.

(See “Discovering Archaea, 1977,” The Scientist, March 2014) Even though viruses were by that time visible using electron microscopes, they were left off the tree of life because they did ...

That is to say: there may be a hundred million times more viruses on Earth than there are stars in the universe. The majority of these viruses infect microbes, including bacteria, archaea, and ...

Viruses can replicate only inside a host’s cell. Hosts of viruses include animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, and archaea. Many viruses have evolved to infect multiple kinds of hosts, while some ...

Schleper's research focuses on ecology, molecular biology and evolution of archaea, virus-host interactions and the investigation of non-cultivable microorganisms using metagenomics. Disclaimer ...