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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effective Population Size | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | <=1e+6 | Organisms | 104623 | Hawks J, Hunley K, Lee SH... |
| Effective population size | Influenza | 526 (451 to 611) | Organisms | 106586 | Bedford T, Cobey S, Pascual... |
| Effective population size | Measels virus | 4135 (3332 to 5107) | Organisms | 106587 | Bedford T, Cobey S, Pascual... |
| Effective population size | Various | >10^8 for prokaryotes: 10^7 to 10^8 for unicellular eukaryotes | Individuals | 106963 | Lynch M, Conery JS. The... |
| Typical effective population size | Eukaryotes | unicellular eukaryotes <10^8, sometimes 10^6: invertebrates ~10^6: some vertebrates 10^4 | individuals | 112122 | Michael Lynch and Georgi... |
| Population size (most numerous undomesticated bird on earth) | Red-billed quelea Quelea quelea | ~1.5 | billion individuals | 117284 | Bennett CE et al., The... |
| Maximum population size in human colon | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 1e+9 | cells per gram | 102095 | Michael A. Savageau, 1983... |
| Total population size in the wild | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 1E+20 | cells | 116909 | Tenaillon O, Skurnik D... |
| Effective population size (Ne) estimated from DNA sequence variability | Human Homo sapiens | 10,000 - 20,000 | individuals | 113339 | Charlesworth B. Fundamental... |
| Effective population size (Ne) estimates from DNA sequence diversities | Various | Table - link | individuals | 113338 | Charlesworth B. Fundamental... |
| Effective Human Population Size according to Human-specific Alu polymorphisms | Human Homo sapiens | 17500 (Table - link) | Individuals | 104621 | Hawks J, Hunley K, Lee SH... |
| Typical effective population size of free-living bacteria | bacteria | >10^8, often in the range of 10^9-10^10 | cells | 112121 | Michael Lynch and Georgi... |
| Upper limit for Effective Population Size of large mammals, including humans | Mammals | 100000 | Organisms | 104624 | Hawks J, Hunley K, Lee SH... |
| Human Population Size at onset of Neolithic 10000 years before present | Human Homo sapiens | 1e+6 | Individuals | 104622 | Hawks J, Hunley K, Lee SH... |
| Effective Human Population Size according to beta globin nuclear genetic data | Human Homo sapiens | 10000 | Individuals | 104619 | Hawks J, Hunley K, Lee SH... |
| Effective Human Population Size according to Human Leukocyte Antigen system (HLA) interallelic data | Human Homo sapiens | 10000 | Individuals | 104620 | Hawks J, Hunley K, Lee SH... |
| Decrease in bird population size in North America since 1970 | Biosphere | 29 | % | 117279 | Rosenberg KV et al.,... |
| Maximum likelihood estimates for modern and ancestral effective population sizes, time of onset of growth and population growth rates | Bat Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana | Table - link | N/A | 106785 | Russell AL, Cox MP, Brown VA... |
| Population splits and effective population sizes (Ne) during great ape evolution | Apes | Figure - link | N/A | 111515 | Prado-Martinez J et al.... |
| Population density | Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp. | 10^7-10^8 | cells/liter | 113304 | Kashtan N et al., Single-cell... |