The Underestimation of Global Microbial Diversity

The Underestimation of Global Microbial Diversity

In a recent commentary, Amann and Rosselló-Móra summarized how the census of Bacteria and Archaea has changed over time (1). For decades, the number of recognized microbial taxa was underestimated owing to limitations associated with culturebased methods and the rules of nomenclature. The authors describe a “quantum leap” in the estimates of global microbial diversity following advances in high...

Reply to “The Underestimation of Global Microbial Diversity”

Our commentary “After All, Only Millions?” (1) highlighted that, in contrast to a recent scaling law-based estimate of global microbial diversity of a trillion species-level operational taxonomic units (2), the decreasing frequencies of novel 16S rRNA gene sequences recovered by high-throughput sequencing (3, 4) is suggesting that global microbial diversity might well be saturated at a few mill...

Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity.

Scaling laws underpin unifying theories of biodiversity and are among the most predictively powerful relationships in biology. However, scaling laws developed for plants and animals often go untested or fail to hold for microorganisms. As a result, it is unclear whether scaling laws of biodiversity will span evolutionarily distant domains of life that encompass all modes of metabolism and scale...

Molecular Structure Determination: Convex Global Underestimation

phylogeography and genetic diversity of the lesser mouse- eared bat (myotis blythii) in iran

in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...