| Range |
0.19e-9 – 4.4e–9 or (0.38e-5 – 8.8e–5J/hour/cell) LO2/hour
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| Organism |
Ciliate Paramecium caudatum |
| Reference |
Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F, Baba SA, Mogami Y. Substantial energy expenditure for locomotion in ciliates verified by means of simultaneous measurement of oxygen consumption rate and swimming speed. J Exp Biol. 2009 Jun212(Pt 12):1819-24. doi: 10.1242/jeb.028894. p.1819 left column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID19482999
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| Primary Source |
Fenchel, T. and Finlay, B. J. (1983). Respiration rates in heterotrophic, free-living protozoa. Microbio. Ecol. 9, 99-122.PubMed ID24221648
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| Comments |
P.1819 left column 3rd paragraph: "The total energy consumption of Paramecium was estimated on the basis of the oxygen consumption. Fenchel and Finlay summarized the data of the total oxygen consumption rate measured
from the cells under various physiological conditions, such as
growing or starved cells at different temperatures (primary source). They obtained 0.19–4.4X10^–9 l O2h^–1 for a single cell (Paramecium caudatum). These values can be converted to the power, 0.38–8.8X10^–5J/hour/cell, by the conventional transformation of liters of O2 into 20.1 kJ (Schmidt-Nielsen, 1984)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
110781 |