This chapter will likely need a good deal more discussion than those before for a number of reasons...
First of all this stuff is new, and I don't just mean to Jeff's book. This is a pretty new addition to biology, period, a whole kingdom we have overlooked for a really long time. The differences between bacteria and archaea are profound enough to warrant the new kingdom, but this is electron microscope work to tell the difference...
But it seems that archaea are even more responsible for decomposition than the bacteria are (
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Brave new world here; who else is just getting an earful on a new topic besides me?
HG