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Editorial
. 2022 Jan 4:12:802619.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.802619. eCollection 2021.

Editorial: Microbial Communities and Metabolisms Involved in the Degradation of Cellular and Extracellular Organic Biopolymers

S Emil Ruff  1
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Editorial: Microbial Communities and Metabolisms Involved in the Degradation of Cellular and Extracellular Organic Biopolymers

S Emil Ruff. Front Microbiol. .
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Keywords: carbohydrate; heterotrophic microorganism; lipid; macromolecule; necromass; nucleic acid; polysaccharide; protein.

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Figure 1
Abundance of major classes of cellular macromolecules in different organisms. The macromolecular composition of cells and organisms can vary greatly between lineages, between species, and even between different body parts or developmental stages of the same organism. Proteins and carbohydrates (mainly polysaccharides) constitute most of the biomass of a generic cell averaged across all included organisms. The abundance and importance of proteins or polysaccharides or other macromolecules as a source of energy, carbon, and nutrition, however, greatly differs between ecosystems depending on its community. The values are taken from studies listed in Supplementary Table 1. The number of included samples is given below each boxplot. “Average” percentages were calculated from all shown organisms and are subject to change with additional data.
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