SOIL METAGENOME. “Together with the direct estimate of a combined metagenome sizes at about 100 billion base pairs, these data support large soil metagenome sizes with a low content of eukaryotic species (<5% of all random DNA fragments). Most likely, the true size of the metagenome in natural soil is even larger than the estimates for the experimental soil microbiota."
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