Percent of well-studied microbial communities, such as the human distal gut, that have been cultured
| Range | 20 to 40 % |
|---|---|
| Organism | Microbes |
| 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.2 left column top paragraphPubMed ID19023400 |
| Comments | "It is now evident that microbiologists have been successful in culturing fewer than one percent of the different kinds of single cell organisms from most microbial communities [25]. Even for well-studied communities, such as the human distal gut, only 20–40% of the microbes have been cultured." |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 109669 |