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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of chromosomes, DNA amount per cell, nuclear volume & chromosome volume | Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans | 65 chromosomes: 7E10 nucleotide pairs: volumes-nucleus 3,450µm^3 -chromosome 20µm^3 | N/A | 114598 | Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan... |
| Range of genome sizes (Equivalent to Symbiodinium spp. 3×10^6kbp to Prorocentrum micans 245×10^6 kbp) | Dinoflagellates | coral reef symbiont Symbiodinium spp. 1.5-4.8 (average ∼3): Prorocentrum micans 250 | pg DNA/haploid genome | 112817 | Hou Y, Lin S. Distinct... |
| Number of chromosomes, DNA amount per cell, nuclear volume & chromosome volume | Dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii | 95-100 chromosomes: 1.4E10 nucleotide pairs: volumes-nucleus 690µm^3 -chromosome 2.6µm^3 | N/A | 114599 | Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan... |
| Fraction of thymines in DNA that are replaced by the unusual base, 5-hydroxymethyluracil (HOMedU) | Dinoflagellates | 16 – 28 | % of the thymines | 114600 | Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan... |
| Number of chromosomes/cell | Green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | 17 (Table - link) | Chromosomes/cell | 100333 | Merchant et al., The... |
| Number of chromosomes | Chinese hamster | 22 | unitless | 103223 | Jayapal K. P., Wlaschin K. F.... |
| Compaction of circular chromosome | Bacteria Escherichia coli | >1,000 | Fold | 109248 | Wang X, Possoz C, Sherratt... |
| Number of chromosomes | Bread mold Neurospora crassa | 7 | chromosomes | 111376 | National Institutes of Health... |
| Gene copy numbers documented to date (as of 2009) | Dinoflagellates | Table - link | gene copy number per genome | 112818 | Hou Y, Lin S. Distinct... |
| Number of copies of the chromosome | Cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 | 6.5 | copies/cell | 100515 | Bird AJ, Turner-Cavet JS... |
| Number of chromosomes | Frog Xenopus tropicalis | 10 | Unitless | 100284 | Hellsten et al, The genome... |
| Number of chromosomes | dog | 40 | chromosomes | 111393 | Kirkness EF et al., The... |
| Nuclear volumes, DNA content per cell, interphase chromosome volumes, and DNA content per chromosome of 30 species of higher plants | Plants | Table - link | N/A | 107800 | Baetcke KP, Sparrow AH... |
| Cell volume & DNA concentration | Bacteria Spiroplasma melliferum | cell volume 0.02µm^3: DNA concentration 0.052g/mL cell volume | N/A | 111877 | R.T. Dame and C.J. Dorman... |
| Volume of dinoflagellate species analyzed | Protists | 180 to 279,000 Table - link | μm^3 | 107971 | Susanne Menden-Deuer... |
| Nuclear volume | Mammalian tissue culture cell | 283 (66 - 500) | µm^3 | 100442 | Roskams and Rodgers,... |
| Number of chromosomes | Pufferfish Fugu rubripes | 22 | chromosomes | 111392 | Kai W et al., Integration... |
| Initiation of sex chromosome evolution | Birds | >130 | Ma (million years ago) | 112865 | Yazdi HP, Ellegren H.... |
| Number of chromosomes | Sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | 42 | chromosomes | 111373 | Eno CC, Böttger SA, Walker... |
| Increase in nuclear DNA amount that did not affect nuclear size | Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe | 16 | fold | 114005 | Vuković LD, Jevtić P... |