| Range |
prokaryotes 3.2147 plants 5,958 animals 4,456 algae 855.59 unicellular eukaryotes 59.529 fungi 31.87 Mb
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| Organism |
Various |
| Reference |
Landenmark HK, Forgan DH, Cockell CS. An Estimate of the Total DNA in the Biosphere. PLoS Biol. 2015 Jun 11 13(6):e1002168. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002168. p.4/10 box 1 & p.6/10 3rd paragraphPubMed ID26066900
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| Primary Source |
[6] Gregory TR. Prokaryote genome sizes Table 1 2005. Database: genomesize. link Accessed 18 May 2015. [11] Bennett MD, Leitch IJ. Plant DNA C-values database (Release 6.0, Dec. 2012) 2012. Database: data.kew. link Accessed 18 May 2015. [13] Gregory TR. Animal genome size database 2014. Database: genomesize. link Accessed 18 May 2015. [21] Kapraun DF, Leitch IJ, Bennett MD. Algal DNA C-value database (Release 1.0, Dec. 2004) 2004. Database: data.kew. link Accessed 18 May 2015. [22] European Bioinformatics Institute (2013) Ensembl protists species 2013. Database: ensembl. link Accessed 18 May 2015. (note-link is broken as of June 16th 2015) [23] Kullman B, Tamm H, Kullman K. Fungal genome size database 2005. Database: zbi. link Accessed 18 May 2015. [25] National Center for Biotechnology Information. Entrez genome viral genomes, 2014. Database: ncbi.nlm.nih. link . Accessed 18 May 2015. |
| Method |
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) |
| Comments |
p.4/10 box 1 link :"For prokaryotes, the estimated total number of cells, 5×10^30 cells [BNID 104960] was combined with the average prokaryotic genome size, 3.2147 Mb [primary source 6], as determined by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), to give the total amount of DNA contained in the group...an average genome size [for plants] of 5,958.01 Mb [primary source 11]...the average animal genome size of 4,456 Mb [primary source 13]...Using the average genome size of 855.59 Mb [primary source 21] for algae and 59.529 Mb [primary source 22 (note-link is broken as of June 16th 2015)] for other unicellular eukaryotes...using an average genome size [for fungi] of 31.874 Mb [primary source 23]...an average viral genome size of 0.039518 Mb [primary source 25]..." p.6/10 3rd paragraph:"...the average genome size in prokaryotes is 3.2147 Mb, compared to the higher value in plants (5,958 Mb) and animals (4,456 Mb)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
111596 |