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Fraction of living biomass in global oceans that are marine microbes

Range	>90 %
Organism	Biosphere
Reference	Weynberg KD, Allen MJ, Wilson WH. Marine Prasinoviruses and Their Tiny Plankton Hosts: A Review. Viruses. 2017 Mar 15 9(3). pii: E43. doi: 10.3390/v9030043. p.1 bottom paragraphPubMed ID28294997
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Comments	P.1 bottom paragraph: "Marine microbes comprise more than 90% of the living biomass in the global oceans [primary sources] and the phytoplankton component of this biomass are responsible for approximately half of the world’s photosynthetic activity [BNID 113510]."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	113509