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Energy input rate (W) for volume regulation in cells

Range	Table - link Watt
Organism	Unspecified
Reference	John A Raven. The energetics of freshwater algae energy requirements for biosynthesis and volume regulation, New Phytologist, Volume 92, Issue 1 September 1982 Pages 1–20 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1982.tb03358.x p.10 table 4
Comments	P.11 3rd paragraph: "[Investigators] may note that the minimum thermodynamic costs of flagellar function in [their] hypothetical cell (Table 1) are considerably less than the minimum thermodynamic costs of contractile vacuole function (Table 4) a similar difference is seen for a comparison of mechanistic costings." P.16 2nd paragraph: "Conclusions and implications: (1) The minimal (thermodynamic) energy input rate for contractile vacuole operation is an order of magnitude less than that for cell wall synthesis as a means of volume regulation in otherwise comparable micro-algal cells (Table 4). (2) The mechanistic estimates of the power consumption for volume regulation by contractile vacuoles and by cell wall generation are very similar (Table 4)."
Entered by	Uri M
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