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The universal distribution of gene commonality in the microbial genomic universe: a generalized schematic. The three broken lines represent three exponential functions that fit the core (on the right), the shell (in the middle) and the cloud (on the left) of prokaryotic genes (O'Malley and Koonin, 2011).
