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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swimming parameters | Bacteria Thiovulum majus | 3–10 rotations/sec at a radius of 5–40μm: a pitch of 40-250μm | N/A | 110075 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Maximal swimming speed | Sulfur bacterium Thiovulum majus | ~600 | μm/s | 107652 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Tangential velocity of swimming (fastest prokaryotic swimmer known) | Bacteria Thiovulum spp. | 150 – 600 | μm/sec | 110076 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Compared parameters of microbial swimming | Microbes | Table - link | N/A | 111231 | Garcia-Pichel F. 1989.... |
| Diameter of cell | Bacteria Thiovulum spp. | 9 – 18 | μm | 110078 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Maximal swimming speed | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 66 (Table - link) | μm/s | 107651 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Maximum swimming speed | bacteria | marine bacteria ≤400µm/sec: E. coli 40µm/sec | µm/sec | 112815 | Barbara GM, Mitchell... |
| Swimming characteristics of various species of Archaea and E. coli | prokaryote | Table - link | N/A | 107650 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Swimming speed of marine bacteria in natural population | bacteria | 100 - 400 | μm/sec | 110073 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Maximal swimming speed | Archaea Methanocaldococcus jannaschii | 589 (Table - link) | μm/s | 107649 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Maximum speed of marine bacteria | bacteria | maximum community speed 144µm/sec: maximum individual burst velocity 407µm/sec | µm/sec | 112302 | Mitchell JG, Pearson L... |
| Number of bacteria in ocean | Biosphere | 1E+29 | Bacteria | 108286 | Lawrence R . Pomeroy... |
| Size of rumen bacteria | bacteria | 0.3 to 50 | µm | 112827 | Yokoyama MG, Johnson... |
| Length of marine bacteria | bacteria | 0.2 - 0.6 | µm | 112299 | Mitchell JG, Pearson L... |
| Fraction of all bacteria in the surface ocean that are aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic (AAP) bacteria | bacteria | 1% to 30% | % | 111294 | Kirchman DL, Hanson TE.... |
| Redox reactions in chemolithotrophic bacteria | bacteria | Table - link | N/A | 104414 | Gerhard Michal, Biochemical... |
| Isoelectric points of various bacteria | bacteria | Table - link | pH | 109121 | Harden VP, Harris JO.... |
| Size of bacteria in rumen | bacteria | diameter 0.4-1.0µm: length 1-3µm | µm | 112390 | Hungate, R. E. (1966)... |
| Age of viable bacteria extracted from amber | Bacteria Micrococcus luteus | 34,000 to170,000 | Years | 106140 | Greenblatt CL, Baum J... |
| Carbon/volume ratio for native marine bacteria and cultured bacteria (E. coli & V. natriegens) | bacteria | 32-78 native marine: 67-160 cultured Table - link | fg/μm^3 | 106599 | Fagerbakke KM, Norland S... |