Microbial Profiles Serve As The Ecological Version Of The Human Genome Project
Nowhere is the principle of “strength in numbers” more apparent than in the collective power of microbes: despite their simplicity, these one-cell organisms — which number about 5 million trillion trillion strong (no, that is not a typo) on Earth — affect virtually every ecological process, from the decay of organic material to the production of oxygen.
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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on April 2nd, 2008