This Formal Comment provides clarifications on the authors' recent estimates of global bacterial diversity and the current status of the field, and responds to a Formal Comment from John Wiens regarding their prior work.

中文翻译：

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对“对全球生物多样性的极大（但可以避免）低估”的回应。

该正式评论澄清了作者最近对全球细菌多样性的估计和该领域的现状，并回应了约翰·维恩斯关于他们之前工作的正式评论。