Honors Program Theses

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Open Access Honors Program Thesis

First Advisor

Marek Sliwinski

Abstract

Archaea, being classified as its own separate domain only within the past fifty years, has earned a reputation of being notoriously difficult to culture in a laboratory setting. Because of this, their functions in ecosystems and potential for use in bioremediation is largely unknown and untapped. In order to further develop methodologies to successfully cultivate these microbes, an analysis of past research is needed to help understand where to lead research. After analyzing past studies on archaea and recalcitrant microbes as a whole, it is found that other factors are often overlooked and a label of recalcitrance is added. This leads to a cycle with uncultured archaea not having primers that amplify them, which leads to measures of archaeal diversity as a whole being inaccurate. Further research developments based on past successes are necessary to determine the previously untapped potential of archaea.

Year of Submission

2024

Department

Department of Biology

University Honors Designation

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors

Date Original

5-2024

Object Description

1 PDF (iii, 19 pages)

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Language

en

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