Number of different kinds of bacteria and archaea in a few liters of hydrothermal vent fluid

Range >40,000 different kinds of prokaryotes
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
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
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