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Microbiology

the large number of low-abundance microbial taxa found by deep sequencing, forming a long tail beneath a few dominant ones.

In microbiology, rare biosphere refers to the large number of low-abundance microbial taxa found by deep sequencing, forming a long tail beneath a few dominant ones. This meaning comes from Sogin (2006) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Sogin, M. L., Morrison, H. G., Huber, J. A., Welch, D. M., Huse, S. M., Neal, P. R., Arrieta, J. M., & Herndl, G. J. (2006). Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(32), 12115-12120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605127103

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