Archaea (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Archaea

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SEAS researchers have found that these pink-hued archaea -- called Halobacterium salinarum -- use the same mechanisms to maintain size as bacteria and eukaryotic life, indicting that cellular division strategy may be shared across all domains of life.

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Image courtesy of Alexandre Bison/ Harvard University

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