Status of the Microbial Census

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Summary

It is not possible to estimate the total number of bacterial species on Earth, but the minimum species richness is 35,498, and the data support previous calls for extensive surveys of multiple chemically disparate environments and of specific phylogenetic groups to advance the census most rapidly.

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review
Published
2004-12-01
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Keywords

Phylum, Species richness, Biology, Rarefaction (ecology), GenBank

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