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Edited by Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, and approved April 13, 2018 (received for review July 3, 2017)
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- aDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel;
- bDepartment of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125;
- cDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
Edited by Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, and approved April 13, 2018 (received for review July 3, 2017)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: ron.milo{at}weizmann.ac.il.
Author contributions: Y.M.B.-O., R.P., and R.M. designed research; Y.M.B.-O. and R.M. performed research; Y.M.B.-O. and R.M. analyzed data; and Y.M.B.-O., R.P., and R.M. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: All of the data used to generate our estimates, as well as the code used for analysis, are available on GitHub at https://github.com/milo-lab/biomass_distribution.
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This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2018/07/13/1711842115.DC1.
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