#ignicoccus hospitalis

[does-this-require-cyanobacteria]

Here's a fun one! Thermophillic Archeaon, Ignicoccus hospitalis

(Heimerl et al., 2017)

Ignicoccus Hospitalis WOULD EXIST without Cyanobacteria

Ignicoccus Hospitalis is an archaeon (one of the two domains of life, the other one being Bacteria. Usually, only archaea which are not eukaryotes, unlike us, are referred to using their domain). They are extremely thermophilic (meaning they live at high temperatures) and live in hydrothermal vents. They do not breathe O2, their metabolisms only convert Sulfur (S) to Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S). This species does not interact with Cyanobacteria and does not use resources produced by it. P.S. While finding information for this post, I ended up using information from some Wikipedia articles that I was actually the author of!