A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov.
A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov.
C. Preston,K. Wu,T. Molinski,E. Delong
1996 · DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.93.13.6241
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 482 Citations
TLDR
The discovery and preliminary characterization of a marine archaeon that inhabits the tissues of a temperate water sponge and represents the first described symbiosis involving Crenarchaeota, and a symbiotic archaeon closely related to other nonthermophilic cren archaeotes that inhabit diverse marine and terrestrial environments is presented.