The birth of the archaea : a personal retrospective / Carl R. Woese -- Natural history of the archaeal domain / Patrick Forterre, Simonetta Gribaldo, and Celine Brochier-Armanet -- The root of the tree : lateral gene transfer and the nature of the domains / David A. Walsh ... [et al.] -- Diversity of uncultivated archaea : perspectives from microbial ecology and metagenomics / Christa Schleper -- Nanoarchaeota / Harald Huber and Reinhard Rachel -- Families of DNA viruses infecting hyperthermophilic crenarchaea / David Prangishvili -- Features of the genomes / Hans-Peter Klenk -- Sulfolobus genomes : mechanisms of rearrangements and change / Kim Brgger, Xu Peng, and Roger A. Garrett -- Plasmids / Georg Lipps -- Integration mechanisms: possible role in genome evolution / Qunxin She, Haojun Zhu, and Xiaoyu Xiang -- Genetics / Moshe Mevarech and Thorsten Allers -- Genetic properties of sulfolobus acidocaldarius and related archaea / Dennis W. Grogan -- Chromatin and regulation / John N. Reeve and Kathleen Sandman -- DNA replication and the cell cycle / Victoria L. Marsh and Stephen D. Bell.

DNA repair / Malcolm F. White -- Transcriptional mechanisms / Michael Thomm and Winfried Hausner -- Transcriptional regulation in haloarchaea / Felicitas Pfeifer ... [et al.] -- Aminoacyl-tRNAs : deciphering and defining the genetic message / Alexandre Ambrogelly ... [et al.] -- Translational mechanisms and protein synthesis / Paola Londei -- Expanding world of small noncoding RNAs / Arina Omer, Maria Zago, and Patrick P. Dennis -- Transcriptomics, proteomics, and structural genomics of pyrococcus furiosus / Michael W.W. Adams ... [et al.] -- Glycolytic pathways : evolution by tinkering / John van der Oost and Bettina Siebers -- Metabolism of inorganic sulfur compounds in archaea / Arnulf Kletzin -- Methyl-coenzyme M reductase in methanogens and methanotrophs / Rudolf K. Thauer and Seigo Shima -- Methylation of metal(loid)s by methanoarchaea : production of volatile derivatives with high ecotoxicological impact and health concern / Klaus Michalke, Jörg Meyer, and Reinhard Hensel -- Biotechnology / Ksenia Egorova and Garabed Antranikian.