Archaea: What even are they?

Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In this primer episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Connor Hines introduce our podcast and subject of study - Archaea!

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Bibliography:

Cavicchioli R, Curmi PM, Saunders N, Thomas T. Pathogenic archaea: do they exist? Bioessays. 2003 Nov;25(11):1119-28. doi: 10.1002/bies.10354. PMID: 14579252.

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Pictures of Haloquadratum walsbyi, misnomered as a bacterium, can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/news041011-3

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Current, more up-to-date nomenclature can be found at: https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/genome?gid=GCA_003086455.1

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