Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our fifth episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Dr. Connor Hines talk about Acidophiles, the heavy metal rockin’ Archaea! In the second part of the episode, Connor Hines interviews Prof. Paul Blum, from the University of Nebraska Lincoln.

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Article link for: “Yellowstone National Park Death: Oregon Man Died In Acidic Hot Spring Trying To ‘Hot Pot’”

Video showing Cans dissolving in Acid

Sacki Dog Meme

Picture of “Ferroplasma acidiphilum”

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For nomenclature changes, current nomenclature can be found here

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Sources

Howland, J. L. (2000). The surprising archaea: discovering another domain of life. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195111835

Chen, Lanming, et al. "The genome of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, a model organism of the Crenarchaeota."

Ferrer, Manuel, et al. "The cellular machinery of Ferroplasma acidiphilum is iron-protein-dominated."

McCarthy, Samuel, et al. "Expanding the limits of thermoacidophily in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus by adaptive evolution."

Krzmarzick, Mark James, et al. "Diversity and niche of archaea in bioremediation."

Rastädter, Kerstin, et al. "The cell membrane of Sulfolobus spp.-homeoviscous adaption and biotechnological applications."

Baker-Austin, Craig, and Mark Dopson. "Life in acid: pH homeostasis in acidophiles."

Mikael Sehlin, H. B. L. E., and E. Börje Lindström. "Oxidation and reduction of arsenic by Sulfolobus acidocaldarius strain BC."

“Abandoned Mine Drainage”

“Where do acid-sulfate hot springs come from and why are they important?”

Nordstrom, D. Kirk, James W. Ball, and R. Blaine McCleskey. "Ground water to surface water: chemistry of thermal outflows in Yellowstone National Park." Geothermal biology and geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park (2005): 73-94.

Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our fourth episode, our hosts Dr. Connor Hines and Dr. Alex Philips talk about Thermophiles, the Archaea which are almost too hot to handle! In the second part of the episode, Theopi Rados interviews Prof. Rachel Whitaker, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Picture of Pyrococcus furiosus

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For nomenclature changes, current nomenclature can be found here

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Sources

Atomi, Haruyuki, et al. 2004. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.186.14.4829-4833.2004

Boyd, Eric S., et al. 2013. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00062

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Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our third episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Connor Hines talk about Asgardarcheota, Norse mythology named Archaea! In the second part of the episode, Dr. Alex Phillips interviews Prof. Brett Baker, from the University of Texas at Austin.

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For nomenclature changes, current nomenclature can be found here

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Sources

Scientists Break Record By Finding Northernmost Hydrothermal Vent Field

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Cultured Asgard Archaea Shed Light on Eukaryogenesis

Genomic reconstruction of a novel, deeply branched sediment archaeal phylum with pathways for acetogenesis and sulfur reduction

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche

Fantastic article on the history of Metagenomics

Press release which includes the E3 image from JAMSTEC, and a great video on E3 from JAMSTEC.

Other work cited:

Booth A, Doolittle WF. Eukaryogenesis, how special really? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Aug 18;112(33):10278-85. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1421376112. Epub 2015 Apr 16. PMID: 25883267; PMCID: PMC4547297.

Jørgensen, Steffen Leth, et al. "Quantitative and phylogenetic study of the Deep Sea Archaeal Group in sediments of the Arctic mid-ocean spreading ridge." Frontiers in microbiology (2013)

Stackebrandt E, Frederiksen W, Garrity GM, Grimont PAD, Kämpfer P, Maiden MCJ, Nesme X, Rosselló-Mora R, Swings J, Trüper HG, Vauterin L, Ward AC, Whitman WB. Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2002 May;52(Pt 3):1043-1047. doi: 10.1099/00207713-52-3-1043. PMID: 12054223.

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