| Range |
≤25% of all ocean microbes (50% in some surface waters) ≤12% of the marine prokaryotic biomass %
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| Organism |
Biosphere |
| Reference |
Young KD. The selective value of bacterial shape. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2006 Sep70(3):660-703 DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00001-06 p.666 right column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID16959965
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| Primary Source |
[93] Giovannoni SJ et al., Genome streamlining in a cosmopolitan oceanic bacterium. Science. 2005 Aug 19 309(5738):1242-5 DOI: 10.1126/science.1114057 [222] Morris RM et al., SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities. Nature. 2002 Dec 19-26 420(6917):806-10 DOI: 10.1038/nature01240 [266] Rappé MS, Connon SA, Vergin KL, Giovannoni SJ. Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade. Nature. 2002 Aug 8 418(6898):630-3 DOI: 10.1038/nature00917PubMed ID16109880, 12490947 ,12167859
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| Comments |
P.666 right column 3rd paragraph: "At the smallest end of the free-living bacteria, the SAR11 clade of marine Alphaproteobacteria constitute up to 25% of all ocean microbes (50% in some surface waters) and 12% of the marine prokaryotic biomass (primary sources)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
115574 |