Thaumarchaeota
See also: thaumarchaeota
Translingual
Competing hypotheses about relationships of groups in Archaea, including Thaumarcheota
Etymology
In part, from Ancient Greek θαῦμα (thaûma, “wonder”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
Thaumarchaeota
- Chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizers that may play important roles in biogeochemical cycles, such as the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle.
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea.
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota.
Synonyms
- (phylum): Thaumarchaea, Nitrosphaerota
Hypernyms
- (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Archaea - superkingdom; Crenarchaeota - phylum
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Cenarchaeales, Nitrosocaldales, Nitrosopumilales - orders
- (class): Cenarchaeales - order
References
Thaumarchaeota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Thaumarchaeota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Archaea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Archaea at the Tree of Life Web Project
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- Brochier-Armanet, C. et al. (2008), “Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota”, in Nature Reviews Microbiology, volume 6, DOI:, pages 245–252