Name: "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017

Category: Superphylum

Proposed as: new superphylum

Gender: masculine

Original publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned this superphylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Farag et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Sifarchaeota" Farag et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Farag IF, Zhao R, Biddle JF. "Sifarchaeota," a Novel Asgard Phylum from Costa Rican Sediment Capable of Polysaccharide Degradation and Anaerobic Methylotrophy. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:0. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Imachi et al. (2024) assigned the phylum Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024 to this superphylum. Publication: Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435. 🇯🇵
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the family "Candidatus Wukongarchaeaceae" Liu et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Helarchaeota" Seitz et al. 2019 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Odinarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" corrig. Spang et al. 2015 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Thorarchaeota" corrig. Seitz et al. 2016 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Wukongarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Gerdarchaeota" Cai et al. 2020 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Baldrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Borrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Hermodarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Hodarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Kariarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021 to this superphylum. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Xie et al. (2022) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Freyrarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022 to this superphylum. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Xie et al. (2022) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Njordarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022 to this superphylum. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Xie et al. (2022) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Sigynarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022 to this superphylum. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017 to this superphylum. Publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Odinarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017 to this superphylum. Publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" corrig. Spang et al. 2015 to this superphylum. Publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Thorarchaeota" corrig. Seitz et al. 2016 to this superphylum. Publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 😵 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.
  • 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).

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