Annual cellular production of prokaryotes in various habitats

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Organism prokaryote
Reference Whitman WB, Coleman DC, Wiebe WJ. Prokaryotes: the unseen majority. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Jun 9 95(12):6578-83 p.6581 table 7PubMed ID9618454
Comments "Although subsurface prokaryotes predominate numerically, their cellular productivity is comparable to that of the much smaller but more rapidly growing population associated with domestic animals (Table 7). The highest cellular productivity is found in the open ocean (Table 7)."
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