Thaumarchaeota

Cladus: Neomura
Superregnum: Archaea
Regnum: Archaea
Group: TACK group
Phylum: Thaumarchaeota
Classis: Nitrososphaeria
Ordines: Cenarchaeales – Nitrosopumilales – Nitrososphaerales

Candidatus (?): Nitrosocaldales

Candidati (incertae sedis): Caldiarchaeum – Giganthauma – Nitrosopelagicus – Nitrosotalea – Nitrosotenuis – Marine Group I

• Thaumarchaeota Brochier-Armanet, Boussau, Gribaldo & Forterre, 2008

Synonyms:

Aigarchaeota

Nitrososphaeraeota

• Brochier-Armanet, C.; Boussau, B.; Gribaldo, S.; Forterre, P. 2008: Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Nature Review Microbiology 6 (3): 245–52. DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1852
• Brochier-Armanet, C.; Gribaldo, S.; Forterre, P. 2008: A DNA topoisomerase IB in Thaumarchaeota testifies for the presence of this enzyme in the last common ancestor of Archaea and Eucarya. Biology Direct 3: 54. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-54
• Spang, A.; Hatzenpichler, R.; Brochier-Armanet, C.; Rattei, T.; Tischler, P.; Spieck, E.; Streit, W.; Dahl, D.A.; Wagner, M.; Schleper, C. 2010: Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Trends Microbiology 18 (8): 331–340. DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.06.003
• Nunoura, T.; Takaki, Y.; Kakuta, J.; Nishi, S.; Sugahara, J.; Kazama, H.; Chee, G.J.; Hattori, M.; Kanai, A.; Aatomi, H.; Takai, K. and akami, H. 2011: Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group. Nucleic Acids Res., 39, 3204-3223. DOI: doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq1228
• Muller, F.; Brissac, T.; Le Bris, N.; Felbeck, H.; and Gros, O. 2010: "First description of giant Archaea (Thaumarchaeota) associated with putative bacterial ectosymbionts in a sulfidic marine habitat." Environ. Microbiol. 12:2371-2383. DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02309.x
• Lehtovirta-Morley, L.E.; Stoecker, K.;, VilcinskasKAS, A.; Prosser, J.I. and Nicol, G.W. 2011: Cultivation of an obligate acidophilic ammonia oxidizer from a nitrifying acid soil. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., published online: September 06. DOI: doi: 10.1073/pnas.1107196108

• Archaea – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• Thaumarchaeota – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• European Nucleotide Archive