Euryarchaeota
| Euryarchaeota | |
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| Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1, each cell about 5 µm in length. | |
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| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990 |
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Euryarchaeota (from Ancient Greek εὐρύς eurús, "broad, wide") is a phylum of archaea. Euryarchaeota are highly diverse and include methanogens, which produce methane and are often found in intestines; halobacteria, which survive extreme concentrations of salt; and some extremely thermophilic aerobes and anaerobes, which generally live at temperatures between 41 and 122 °C. They are separated from the other archaeans based mainly on rRNA sequences and their unique DNA polymerase.
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