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Curtis and Sloan 2005 Exploring Microbial Diversity--A Vast Below. Vol. 309. no. 5739, pp. 1331 - 13

 
 
 
 
 
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Exploring microbial diversity is becoming more like exploring outer space with soil representing a "final frontier" that harbors a largely unknown microbial universe. There are more than 1016 prokaryotes in a ton of soil compared to a mere 1011 stars in our galaxy. Astronomers have wisely inferred the population of celestial objects by mathematical inference. Now microbiologists are following suit, adopting a similar strategy to estimate the number of prokaryote taxa in soil. As shown by Gans et al. on page 1387 (1), the inferred diversity is staggering--higher than previously thought by almost three orders of magnitude.

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