Number of species in microbiome

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Range 500-1000 unitless
Organism Human Homo sapiens
Reference Sears CL. A dynamic partnership: celebrating our gut flora. Anaerobe. 2005 Oct11(5):247-51.PubMed ID16701579
Primary Source Hooper LV, Gordon JI. Commensal host-bacterial relationships in the gut. Science. 2001 May 11 292(5519):1115-8.PubMed ID11352068
Comments ‘microbiome’ - the collective genome of our indigenous microbes. See BNID 105655 for 400-500 bacterial species in the gut.
Entered by Uri M
ID 102387