DPANN
| DPANN | |
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| Nanoarchaeum equitans (the small symbionts on the right) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Superphylum: | DPANN group |
| Phyla | |
DPANN (Diapherotrites, Parvarchaeota, Aenigmarchaeota, Nanoarchaeota, Nanohaloarchaea) is a superphylum of Extremophile Archaea.
It was proposed in 2013 by Rinke et al.
DPANN is an acronym formed by the initials of the first five groups discovered, Diapherotrites, Parvarchaeota, Aenigmarchaeota, Nanoarchaeota and Nanohaloarchaeota.
The superphylum DPANN groups together different phyla with a variety of environmental distribution and metabolism, ranging from symbiotic and thermophilic forms such as Nanoarchaeota, acidophiles like Parvarchaeota and non-extremophiles like Aenigmarchaeota and Diapherotrites.
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