Oops: taxonomy #fail
My journey from bench scientist to bioinformatician began with archaeal genomes. So I was somewhat startled to read The catalytic mechanism for aerobic formation of methane by bacteria, in which we learn about the “ocean-dwelling bacterium Nitrosopumilus maritimus“.
So was Jonathan Eisen of course and you should go and read why. Every top hit in a Web search for that organism tells us that Nitrosopumilus maritimus is an archaeon.
Looking forward to a rapid correction and apology from Nature.
Title edited from “phylogeny” to “taxonomy” at the insistence of @BioinfoTools ;)
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