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Published online 3 July 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020701-5
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More bugs in garden than ocean
New technique estimates global bacterial diversity.
There could be more species of bacteria in your back yard than in all the world's oceans, say UK researchers. They have devised a new way to estimate global bacterial diversity from small samples of water or soil1.
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