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Science 26 August 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5739, pp. 1331 - 1333
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118176
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY:
Exploring Microbial Diversity--A Vast Below

T. P. Curtis and W. T. Sloan

In their Perspective, Curtis and Sloan discuss how there is more to the findings of the Gans et al. paper (in the same issue) than the headline finding of 107 different bacteria in soil. The estimation of a species abundance curve for a sample of soil is of significance in its own right, forming a mathematical map for the exploration of the microbial diversity of soil.

T.P. Curtis is at the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK. E-mail: tom.curtis{at}ncl.ac.uk W.T. Sloan is at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LT, UK. E-mail: sloan{at}civil.gla.ac.uk

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