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Archaea represent a group of microorganisms which often live under extreme conditions and obviously originate from a very early evolutionary era of the earth (extremophiles). Although they actually belong to the prokaryotes and morphologically even resemble the “classical” bacteria, they differ quite extraordinarily from them in many respects. Therefore they are at present taxonomically classified as a third domain (archaea) besides (eu-)bacteria (bacteria) and eukaryotes (eucarya). In older nomenclatures, archaea are called archaebacteria.
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Seltmann, G., Holst, O. (2002). Cell Wall Components of Archaea. In: The Bacterial Cell Wall. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04878-8_5
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