title: How many species of prokaryotes are there?
authors.affiliation: Geosciences Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. bbw@princton.edu
authors.forename: Bess B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D014644:Genetic Variation; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000145:classification*; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000145:classification*; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S