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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genome size | Bacteriophage T7 | 39936 | bp | 109732 | Dunn JJ, Studier FW.... |
| Genome size | Virus Gyrovirus spp. | ~2.3 | kb | 110708 | Minot S, Bryson A, Chehoud C... |
| Genome size | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 1.36e+8 (27,416 coding genes) | bp | 111380 | EnsemblPlants, Arabidopsis... |
| Smallest and largest known genomes | Birds | black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexanderi) 0.91: common ostrich (Struthio camelus) ~1.3 | Gb | 117104 | Zhang G et al., Comparative... |
| Estimated lowest theoretical size (diameter of sphere) for a free-living prokaryotic cell | prokaryote | 250 - 300 | nm | 115571 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Genome size (one of the smallest eukaryotic nuclear genomes) | Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi | 2.9 | Mbp | 105426 | Peyretaillade E, Biderre C... |
| Genome size | Sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | 8.14e+8 | bp | 105517 | Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing... |
| Genome size (smallest known RNA virus genome) | Hepatitis delta virus | 1.7 | Kb | 105570 | Huang CR, Lo SJ. Evolution... |
| Genome size | Virus Megavirus chilensis | 1.259 (encoding 1120 proteins) | Mb | 109553 | Philippe N et al., P... |
| Genome Size | Pig Sus species | 2.7 | Gb | 112105 | Chen K, Baxter T, Muir WM... |
| Reaction and standard changes in free energies for methanogenesis | Archaea | Table - link | N/A | 104555 | Garcia JL, Patel BK,... |
| Free energies and typical organisms of methanogenesis reactions | Archaea | Table - link | N/A | 104548 | Liu Y, Whitman WB. Metabolic... |
| Concentration of methanogens in the human gastrointestinal tract | Archaea | 1e+10 | methanogens/gram of stool sample | 106261 | Cavicchioli R, Curmi PM... |
| Median protein length of 15 archaeal species | Archaea | 247 (Table - link) | Amino acids | 106451 | Brocchieri L, Karlin... |
| Half-lives (t1/2) of aminoacyl-tRNAs at pH 7.5 | Archaea | Table - link | N/A | 107982 | Stepanov VG, Nyborg J.... |
| Fraction of deep sea organisms that are archaea | Biosphere | 40 | % | 106621 | Copley J. All at sea.... |
| Outdated value of largest known genome size - [dubious report, see comments. For updated value see BNID 117342] | Chaos chaos | 6.7e+11 | bp | 104470 | Parfrey LW, Lahr DJ,... |
| Swimming characteristics of various species of Archaea and E. coli | prokaryote | Table - link | N/A | 107650 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Diameter of cell | Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) | 14.02-15.21 | µm | 101901 | Han et al. Cultivation... |
| PSORTdb: a protein subcellular localization database for bacteria and archaea | prokaryote | Database - link | N/A | 105610 | Rey S, Acab M, Gardy JL... |