Tags: Archaea.
Nanohaloarchaea is a class of archaea.The reconstruction of two highly unusual archaeal genomes by de novo metagenomic assembly of multiple deeply sequenced libraries via multi-locus phylogenetic analyses from surface waters of Lake Tyrrell a hypersaline lake in north-west Victoria Australia has led to the creation of a major novel euryarchaeal lineage distantly related to halophilic archaea of class Halobacteria.