Sharing our new paper, led by PhD student Daniel Harrison. We propose that archaea aren't pathogenic because those living in eukaryotic hosts lack a metabolic prerequisite, and those with the prerequisite don't live in eukaryotic hosts. #microsky
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
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Why are archaea not pathogenic? A hypothesis based on metabolism-habitat covariation | mBio
Pathogenicity—the ability to cause infectious disease—is widespread among bacteria
and eukaryotes but conspicuously absent from archaea, the third domain of life. To
understand why archaea are non-pat...
