Taxa

Korarchaeota

Phylum

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General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Korarchaeota." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/phylum-korarchaeota.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Korarchaeota. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/phylum-korarchaeota

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-korarchaeota,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Korarchaeota},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/phylum-korarchaeota},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Korarchaeota is a phylum of archaea known mainly from environmental DNA recovered from hot spring sediments rather than from organisms grown in laboratory culture. It represents an ancient, deeply branching archaeal lineage that has proven difficult to isolate and study directly.

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