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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average duration of a single eye blink | Human Homo sapiens | 0.1-0.4 | sec | 100706 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Time during which the pupil is occluded and vision thereby interrupted during a normal blink | Human Homo sapiens | 100-150 | msec | 113196 | Volkmann FC. Human visual... |
| Angular resolution of the eye | Human Homo sapiens | 18 | arcsec | 114251 | Keller & Friedli, Visibility... |
| Visible spectrum seen by the eye | Human Homo sapiens | 370-730 | nanometers | 100917 | http://webvision.med... |
| Time for eye maturation and development | African clawed frog Xenopus laevis | 60 | hours | 102457 | Curran KL, LaRue S, Bronson B... |
| Fraction of refractive power in eye that is accountable to cornea focusing light onto the retina | Human Homo sapiens | >2/3 | of refractive power | 117193 | Koudouna E et al., Evolution... |
| Diameter of eye | Human Homo sapiens | 24 | mm | 109680 | Vaughan & Asbury's General... |
| In the global population, a person and a child go blind every | Human Homo sapiens | a person goes blind every 5 sec: a child goes blind every minute | N/A | 117172 | Allen D, Vasavada A.... |
| Fraction of the 37 million blind people in 1990 who were blind as a result of cataract | Human Homo sapiens | 40 | % | 117171 | Allen D, Vasavada A.... |
| Turnover of eye lens crystallines | Human Homo sapiens | Life time | N/A | 109840 | Lynnerup N, Kjeldsen H... |
| Number of eye-related genes (~3.5% of the genome) | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 501 | genes | 117180 | Fernald RD. Casting a... |
| Rod disc spacing in eye | Unspecified | 28 | nm | 109782 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Number of ommatidia per eye | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 483 (±7 Table - link) | Ommatidia/eye | 106986 | Böhni R, Riesgo-Escovar J... |
| Magnification of eye (Human optics) | Human Homo sapiens | 0.274 to 0.291 Table - link | mm/deg | 109778 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Time octopus and vertebrate eye arose | Metazoa animals | octopus eye arose ∼480: vertebrate eye arose 640 to 490 | million years ago | 117181 | Fernald RD. Casting a... |
| Size of main, cylindrical, “tubular” eye | Brownsnout spookfish Dolichopteryx longipes | height ~6: width 4 | mm | 117187 | Wagner HJ, Douglas RH... |
| Rod disc packing density in eye | Unspecified | 36 | μm^-1 | 109783 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Peak specific optical density in eye | vertebrates | 0.015 | μm^-1 | 109785 | R. W. Rodieck, The first... |
| Diameter of eye lens | Human Homo sapiens | 9 | mm | 103464 | Riordan-Eva, P. and Whitcher... |
| Thickness of eye lens | Human Homo sapiens | 4 | mm | 103466 | Riordan-Eva, P. and Whitcher... |