| Range |
>40,000 different kinds of prokaryotes
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| Organism |
prokaryote |
| 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 bottom paragraphPubMed ID19023400
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| Primary Source |
Huber JA, Mark Welch DB, Morrison HG, Huse SM, Neal PR, et al. (2007) Microbial Population Structures in the Deep Marine Biosphere. Science 318: 97–100.PubMed ID17916733
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| Comments |
"Huber et al. [primary source] demonstrated that
there are over ~40,000 different kinds of bacteria and archaea in a few liters of hydrothermal vent fluid." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
109670 |