| Range |
2.1 cyanobacteria: 44 eukaryotic photolithotrophs fg/cell
|
| Organism |
Various |
| Reference |
John A.Raven, Why are there no picoplanktonic O2 evolvers with volumes less than
10^-19 m^3? J. Plankton Res. (1994) 16 (5): 565-580. doi: 10.1093/plankt/16.5.565 p.568 2nd paragraph |
| Primary Source |
Raven.J.A. (1986) Physiological consequences of extremely small size for autotrophic organisms on the sea. In Platt.T.R. and Li.W.K.W. (eds). Photosynthetic Picoplankton. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 214. pp. 1—70. |
| Comments |
More recent work on
the red algal class Cyanidiophyceae shows that Cyanidioschyzon merolae (red algae, eukaryote) has a
total of 14.6 Mbp DNA (Ohta et al., 1992 Suzuki etal., 1992), i.e. 8.90 GDa
(assuming a mean Mr of a base pair of 610 Da, assuming adenine = thymine =
guanine = cytosine) or 14.8 fg DNA per cell. |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
107094 |