Nanohalarchaeia
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Nanohalarchaeota is a phylum of diminutive archaea with small genomes and limited metabolic capabilities, belonging to kingdom Nanobdellati. They are ubiquitous in hypersaline habitats, which they share with the extremely halophilic haloarchaea.
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Nanohalarchaeota is a phylum of diminutive archaea with small genomes and limited metabolic capabilities, belonging to kingdom Nanobdellati. They are ubiquitous in hypersaline habitats, which they share with the extremely halophilic haloarchaea.
Nanohaloarchaea were first identified from metagenomic data as a class of uncultivated halophilic archaea composed of six clades and were subsequently placed in the phylum Nanohalarchaeota within the DPANN clade (kingdom Nanobdellati). However, the phylogenetic position of nanohaloarchaea is still highly debated, being alternatively proposed as the sister-lineage of haloarchaea or a member of the Nanobdellati kingdom.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nanohalarchaeia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.