| Range |
10^30 to 10^31 genomes
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| Organism |
Biosphere |
| Reference |
Huse SM, Dethlefsen L, Huber JA, Mark Welch D, Relman DA, Sogin ML. Exploring microbial diversity and taxonomy using SSU rRNA hypervariable tag sequencing. PLoS Genet. 2008 Nov4(11):e1000255. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000255. p.1 left column top paragraphPubMed ID19023400
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| Primary Source |
Whitman WB, Coleman DC, Wiebe WJ (1998) Prokaryotes: the unseen majority. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95: 6578–6583.PubMed ID9618454
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| Comments |
"The biosphere contains between 10^30 and 10^31 microbial
genomes, at least 2–3 orders of magnitude more than the number
of plant and animal cells combined [primary source]." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
109667 |