Archaea

• Different from [[bacteria]] in the generation of the cell membrane
• All prokaryotic
• More closely related to [[eukarya]] than [[bacteria]]
• Newer findings imply that [[Lokiarchaeota]] are closer than the [[TACK Supergroup]] to [[eukarya]]
• Vast majority are non-extremophile

Taxonomy

• [[Archaea]]
  • [[Euryarchaeota]]
  • [[Proteoarchaeota]]
    • [[TACK Supergroup]]
      • [[Korarchaeota]]
      • TC MRCA
        • [[Thaumarchaeota]]
        • [[Crenarchaeota]]
    • [[Lokiarchaeota]]
      • Loki1/Loki2
      • Loki3/[[Eukarya]]