| Value |
2.3E+26
Cells
Range: Table - link Cells
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| Organism |
prokaryote |
| Reference |
William B. Whitman,*† David C. Coleman,‡ and William J. Wiebe. Prokaryotes: The unseen majority. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 June 9 95(12): 6578–6583. p.6579 table 1 p.6578 right column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID9618454
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| Comments |
"There are fewer estimates of the number of prokaryotes in
freshwaters and saline lakes (5). Given an average density of
10^6 cells/ml, the total number of cells in freshwaters and saline
lakes is 2.3?10^26. This value is three orders of magnitude
below the numbers of prokaryotes in seawater." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
108497 |