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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diameter of eye | Human Homo sapiens | 24 | mm | 109680 | Vaughan & Asbury's General... |
| Number of eye-related genes (~3.5% of the genome) | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 501 | genes | 117180 | Fernald RD. Casting a... |
| Number of photons that must enter the eye in order to generate an observed reproducible physiological response | Human Homo sapiens | ~100 | photons | 110983 | Stuart JA, Brige RR (1996).... |
| Diameter of lens of ocelii (simple eye) | Cockroach Periplaneta | ~0.7 | mm | 117185 | Mizunami M. Functional... |
| Angular resolution of the eye | Human Homo sapiens | 18 | arcsec | 114251 | Keller & Friedli, Visibility... |
| Turnover of eye lens crystallines | Human Homo sapiens | Life time | N/A | 109840 | Lynnerup N, Kjeldsen H... |
| Number of ommatidia per eye | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 483 (±7 Table - link) | Ommatidia/eye | 106986 | Böhni R, Riesgo-Escovar J... |
| Magnification of eye (Human optics) | Human Homo sapiens | 0.274 to 0.291 Table - link | mm/deg | 109778 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Diameter of eye lens | Human Homo sapiens | 9 | mm | 103464 | Riordan-Eva, P. and Whitcher... |
| Thickness of eye lens | Human Homo sapiens | 4 | mm | 103466 | Riordan-Eva, P. and Whitcher... |
| Size of main, cylindrical, “tubular” eye | Brownsnout spookfish Dolichopteryx longipes | height ~6: width 4 | mm | 117187 | Wagner HJ, Douglas RH... |
| Rod disc spacing in eye | Unspecified | 28 | nm | 109782 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Time octopus and vertebrate eye arose | Metazoa animals | octopus eye arose ∼480: vertebrate eye arose 640 to 490 | million years ago | 117181 | Fernald RD. Casting a... |
| Rod disc packing density in eye | Unspecified | 36 | μm^-1 | 109783 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Peak specific optical density in eye | vertebrates | 0.015 | μm^-1 | 109785 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Composition of lacrimal fluid in eye | Human Homo sapiens | Table - link | N/A | 103649 | C.U.M. Smith Biology... |
| Time for eye maturation and development | African clawed frog Xenopus laevis | 60 | hours | 102457 | Curran KL, LaRue S, Bronson B... |
| Length of foveal cone outer segments in eye | Human Homo sapiens | 27 to 43 | μm | 109786 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Length of foveal cone outer segments in eye | macaque | 30 to 67 | μm | 109787 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Diameter of eye of spiders with largest eyes | Net-casting spiders, family Deinopidae | ≤1.4 | mm | 116061 | Mammola S, Michalik P... |