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Tiny Marine Microbe Sheds New Light on How Little Genetic Machinery a Cell Needs to Survive

Original Paper

Title of original paper:

A hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome retaining only its replicative core

Journal:

Current Biology

DOI:

10.1016/j.cub.2026.09.042