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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divergence times of ecotypes | Killer whale Orcinus orca | ~150,000 - 700,000 | years ago | 112711 | Morin PA. et al., Complete... |
| Mutation rates for mitochondrial genome | Mammals | Orcinus orca 2.6×10^-3 (1.50–3.83×10^-3): mean for mammals 3.3×10^-2: other cetaceans 2.3×10^-3 | substitutions/site/million years | 112708 | Morin PA. et al., Complete... |
| Divergence between echinoderms and chordates | Metazoa animals | ~900 | million years ago | 117101 | Pinto MR, Melillo D,... |
| Time of divergence between Drosophila species | Drosophila spp. | ~5.4 D. simulans from D. melan.:0.5 D. sechellia from D. sim: 0.1 to 0.3 D. mauritiana from D. sim | Million years ago | 106175 | Sousa-Neves R, Rosas... |
| Protostome/deuterostome divergence | Metazoa animals | ~1,000 | million years ago | 117100 | Pinto MR, Melillo D,... |
| Divergence of arthropods and priapulids | Metazoa animals | ~575 | million years ago | 117102 | Peterson KJ, Cotton JA... |
| Date of hybridization between cultivated tetraploid emmer wheat (AABB, Triticum dicoccoides) and diploid goat grass (DD, Aegilops tauschii) to create bread wheat | Bread wheat Triticum aestivum | ~8,000 | years ago | 110564 | Brenchley et al., Analysis... |
| Divergence of genome between chimpanzee and human (genome-wide nucleotide divergence) | Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes | 1.23 | % | 110376 | Chimpanzee Sequencing... |
| Estimate for the average divergence of Neandertal and modern human autosomal DNA sequences | Human Homo sapiens | 8.25e+5 | years | 105416 | Green RE et al, A draft... |
| Time when the metazoan toolkit of conserved functional components and processes first arised in evolution | Metazoa animals | Table - link | years ago | 117011 | Gerhart J, Kirschner... |
| Average rate of sequence divergence at synonymous sites in homologous protein coding regions between E. coli and S. enterica | bacteria | 0.9 | %/million years | 113306 | Kashtan N et al., Single-cell... |
| Standard screening threshold of sequence difference in cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene to define different species | Metazoa animals | 10 | × (times) average intraspecific difference | 113002 | Hebert PD, Stoeckle MY... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's whale biomass | Mammals | 5 to 15 Table - link | Mt C | 109628 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Sensing range for toothed whales | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 112675 | Andersen KH et al., ... |
| Predicted cellular composition of whale and elephant brains if they scaled according to rodent or primate cellular scaling rules | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 109331 | Herculano-Houzel S. The... |
| Predicted number of neurons in elephant brains if they scaled according to rodent cellular scaling rules | Elephant sp. | 2.3e+10 (Table - link) | neurons | 109426 | Herculano-Houzel S. The... |
| Diffusion rate of Myoglobin | Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus | 113 (Table - link) | µm^2/sec | 100460 | Squire PG, Himmel ME.... |
| Molecular mass of Myoglobin | Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus | 17800 (Table - link) | Dalton | 100461 | Squire PG, Himmel ME.... |
| Increase in size from largest animal (blue whale) to largest plant (giant sequoia) | Eukaryotes | 1.5 | Orders of magnitude | 107059 | Payne JL et al., Two-phase... |
| Brain weight of Eurasian pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) and sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) | Mammals | Sorex minutus 0.25: Physeter macrocephalus 9,000 | grams | 115167 | Haug H. Brain sizes, surfaces... |