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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virus numbers in extreme environments | Various | undetectable - 10^9 | particles/ml | 113946 | Parikka KJ, Le Romancer M... |
| Rate of nucleotide substitution | Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) | >1E-04 | substitution/site/year | 112776 | Duffy S, Shackelton LA... |
| Number of ribosomes | Archaeal Richmond Mine acidophilic nanoorganisms (ARMAN) | ~92 | ribosomes/cell | 114940 | Comolli, L. R., Baker... |
| Capsid diameter of largest known virus | Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus | 500 | nm | 105143 | Claverie JM, Ogata H... |
| Concentration of virus-like particles (VLP) | Ruminants | in rumenal fluid of sheep & cattle using TEM 10^7-10^8 in sheep rumen 1.4×10^10 | VLP/ml | 112502 | Letarov A, Kulikov E.... |
| Concentration of virus-like particles (VLP) | Ruminants | in bovine rumenal fluid 5×10^7: in rumenal fluid of sheep & cattle ≤10^9 | VLP/ml | 112501 | Letarov A, Kulikov E.... |
| Shell volume of Simian virus 40 | SIV | 2.66e+7 (Table - link) | Å^3 | 103054 | Neil R. Voss. 2006 'Geometric... |
| Concentration of Plancomycetes bacteria in P3 alkaline compartment of hindgut | Termite Cubitermes spp | 2.6e+9 | cells/ml | 104950 | Köhler T, Stingl U, Meuser K... |
| Number of hemagglutinating particles yielded by an influenza B Virus | Influenza | 900-1400 | hemagglutinating particles/cell | 101590 | Horsfall, Reproduction... |
| Virus–like particle (VLP) abundance, prokaryotic abundance and virus-to-prokaryote ratio (VPR) values in aquatic habitats | Various | Table - link | N/A | 113945 | Parikka KJ, Le Romancer M... |
| largest known virus as of 03/14 | Pithovirus sibericum | Length ~1500 Diameter 500 | nm | 111143 | Legendre, M. et al.,... |
| Virus-like particle (VLP) abundance, prokaryotic abundance and virus-to-prokaryote ratio (VPR) values in different ecosystems | Various | Table - link | N/A | 113944 | Parikka KJ, Le Romancer M... |
| Mass of virion | Virus Vaccinia | 7.9E-15 to 12.4E-15 | Grams | 106860 | Luke Johnson et al.,... |
| Fraction of host (Micromonas pusilla) that can be lysed | Micromonas pusilla virus MPv | ≤25 | %/day | 113513 | Weynberg KD, Allen MJ... |
| Rate of nucleotide substitution | human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) | HTLV-II ~1E-07: HTLV-II populations that are experiencing rapid epidemic transmission >1E-04 | substitution/site/year | 112774 | Duffy S, Shackelton LA... |
| Number of bacterial cells estimated to be in the oceans (approximately three times the number of archaeal cells) | bacteria | 3.1E+28 | Unitless | 106263 | Karner MB, DeLong EF... |
| Number of atoms in Simian virus 40 | SIV | 9.59e+5 (Table - link) | Atoms | 103053 | Neil R. Voss. 2006 'Geometric... |
| Length of rumen ciliates | Ciliate spp. | ~20 - 200 | µm | 112829 | Yokoyama MG, Johnson... |
| Fraction of proteins encoded by bacterial and archaeal genomes that can be placed into discrete Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COGs) | prokaryote | 55 % - 83 | % | 116960 | Peterson SN, Fraser CM.... |
| Data on DNA content, cell volume and minimum doubling time for twelve species of ciliates | Ciliate spp. | Table - link | N/A | 110493 | B. J. Shuter, J. E. Thomas... |