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In the past few years a revolution has occurred in the taxonomy of living organisms. In fact, on the basis of genetic studies and on the acquisition of other general biochemical features, organisms are no longer merely gathered into two groups of eubacteria and eukaryotes, but may be considered to belong to a third line, the archaebacteria (Woese 1987).
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De Rosa, M., Trincone, A., Nicolaus, B., Gambacorta, A. (1991). Archaebacteria: Lipids, Membrane Structures, and Adaptation to Environmental Stresses. In: di Prisco, G. (eds) Life Under Extreme Conditions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76056-3_5
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