| Range |
50-100 unitless
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| Organism |
Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference |
Sears CL. A dynamic partnership: celebrating our gut flora. Anaerobe. 2005 Oct11(5):247-51.PubMed ID16701579
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| Primary Source |
Hooper LV, Gordon JI. Commensal host-bacterial relationships in the gut. Science. 2001 May 11292(5519):1115-8.PubMed ID11352068
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| Method |
Assuming an average microbial genome size of 5 million base pairs (bp) and 4000 genes per genome, the 2.5-billion- to 5-billion-bp intestinal microbiome may contain 2 million to 4 million genes |
| Comments |
‘microbiome’ - the collective genome of our indigenous microbes |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
102388 |