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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal doubling times of various bacteria | bacteria | Table - link | N/A | 107344 | Rocha EP. Codon usage... |
| Gross composition (% of dry weight) of marine bacteria | bacteria | Table - link | % of dry weight | 108228 | Malcolm R. Brown, Stephanie... |
| Fraction of volume of pelagic bacteria that is water | bacteria | volume 0.026µm^3 46%: volume 0.4µm^3 82 | % | 115330 | Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam... |
| Concentration of bacteria | Sponges phylum Porifera | ≤10^10 | bacteria/ml sponge volume | 113272 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Concentration of bacteria | Sponges phylum Porifera | bacteriosponges 10^8-10^10: low-microbial-abundance sponges (as natural sea water) 10^5-10^6 | bacteria/gram of sponge wet weight | 113277 | Hentschel, U., Usher... |
| Average doubling time of bacteria in the mammalian gut | bacteria | 2.7 - 2.9 | hours | 117322 | Rosenberg E. and Zil... |
| Percent of human feces that consists of bacteria | bacteria | ~30 | % | 108514 | J. van Houte, R. J. Gibbons... |
| Concentration of bacteria in saliva | Human Homo sapiens | 1e+9 | bacteria/ml | 105708 | Berg RD. The indigenous... |
| Growth yields of selected bacteria growing anaerobically | bacteria | Table - link | N/A | 105832 | Harold, F. M. The Vital... |
| Volumes of bacteria from different aquatic locations | bacteria | 0.11 to 0.41 Table - link | μm^3 | 106715 | Kjell Magne Fagerbakke... |
| Thickness of murein in Gram positive bacteria | bacteria | 20 to 80 | nm | 106723 | Reith J, Mayer C. Pe... |
| Fraction of marine bacteria that are motile | bacteria | 20-60 | % | 110359 | Stocker R. Marine microbes... |
| Proton motive force [PMF] of most bacteria | bacteria | <200 | mV | 111698 | Claassens NJ, Volpers M... |
| Dry weight per cell volume in bacteria | bacteria | 0.33 (0.12-0.33) | g dryweight per cubic centimeter cell volume | 110388 | Bakken L, Olsen RA (1983)... |
| Carbon content of bacteria in subseafloor sediment | bacteria | 14 | fg C/cell | 115339 | Braun S et al., Size... |
| Concentration of methanogenic bacteria in feces | Mammals | swine 10^8: human 10^7: cattle 10^6: rabbit 10^4 | bacteria/g dry weight | 112898 | Sorlini, C., Brusa, T.... |
| Genome size (smallest of endosymbiont bacteria) | Bacteria Hodgkinia cicadicola | 143795 | bps | 108693 | McCutcheon JP, McDonald BR... |
| Cell diameter (largest of any bacteria) | Bacteria Thiomargarita namibiensis | 180 (100-750) | µm | 102207 | Schulz HN, Brinkhoff T... |
| Average, (standard deviation), & median lifetime of mRNA in exponentially growing bacteria and stationary phase bacteria | Bacteria Escherichia coli | Exponential mean 4.1 (s.d. 6.2) median 2.8: stationary mean 7.8 (s.d. 48.1) median 4.6 | min | 112328 | Chen H, Shiroguchi K... |
| Swimming speed of marine bacteria in natural population | bacteria | 100 - 400 | μm/sec | 110073 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |