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The archaeon Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, associated with dinoflagellates, has a genome of only 238 kbp🧬🤯
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A hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome retaining only its replicative core
Harada et al. describe an archaeon, recovered from a single marine plankton cell,
whose 238-kb genome is the smallest known for the domain. It has lost nearly all metabolism
but keeps the machinery to...