ArticlemBio2016
After All, Only Millions?
Article in mBio, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- FastAAI: efficient estimation of genome average amino acid identity and phylum-level relationships using tetramers of universal proteins.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Global Archaeal Diversity Revealed Through Massive Data Integration: Uncovering Just Tip of Iceberg.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Decoding populations in the ocean microbiome.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Scientific concepts and methods for moving persistence assessments into the 21st century.Integrated environmental assessment and management · 2022Review
- Distinct ecotypes within a natural haloarchaeal population enable adaptation to changing environmental conditions without causing population sweeps.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Explorative Meta-Analysis of 417 Extant Archaeal Genomes to Predict Their Contribution to the Total Microbiome Functionality.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Metagenomics survey unravels diversity of biogas microbiomes with potential to enhance productivity in Kenya.PloS one · 2021Article
- IMPARO: inferring microbial interactions through parameter optimisation.BMC molecular and cell biology · 2020Article
- Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2020Review
- Complementary Metagenomic Approaches Improve Reconstruction of Microbial Diversity in a Forest Soil.mSystems · 2020Article
- A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy.The ISME journal · 2017Article
- Perna canaliculus and the Intestinal Microbiome.Marine drugs · 2017Review
- Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
- Comment on
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
An update on the census of species of Archaea and Bacteria published recently in mBio (P. D. Schloss, R. A. Girard, T. Martin, J. Edwards, and J. C. Thrash, mBio 7:e00201-16, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00201-16) showed again that, despite ever-increasing sequencing efforts, the PCR-based retrieval of 16S rRNA genes is approaching saturation. On average, 95% of the genes analyzed today are identical to those present in public databases, with rarefaction analysis indicating that about one-third of the bacterial and archaeal diversity has already been covered. Therefore, despite estimates of up to 10(12) microbial species, the option should be considered that the census of Archaea and Bacteria on planet Earth might yield only millions of species after all.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.