Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.
Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.
C. Woese,O. Kandler,M. Wheelis
1990 · DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.87.12.4576
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 6,036 Citations
TLDR
It is proposed that a formal system of organisms be established in which above the level of kingdom there exists a new taxon called a "domain." Life on this planet would be seen as comprising three domains, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eucarya, each containing two or more kingdoms.