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Acceleration of cnidocyte discharge Cnidaria 40000 g force 102414 G. Kass-Simon and A.A....
Pressure inside nematocyst capsule that drives stylet discharge Cnidaria 15 MPa 105582 Nüchter T, Benoit M, Engel U...
Final velocity with which stylet of nematocyst hits cuticle of prey Cnidaria 18.5-37.1 m/sec 105579 Nüchter T, Benoit M, Engel U...
Acceleration of nematocyst discharge Cnidaria 5.41e+6 g force 105575 Nüchter T, Benoit M, Engel U...
Average velocity of stylet of nematocyst Cnidaria 9.3-18.6 m/sec 105580 Nüchter T, Benoit M, Engel U...
Pressure (force/area) with which stylet of nematocyst hits cuticle of prey Cnidaria >=7 GPa 105581 Nüchter T, Benoit M, Engel U...
Number of species Cnidaria 9000 unitless 102413 Lecointre, G. and H....
Fraction of species known today that have image-forming eyes Metazoa animals ~96 % 117179 Fernald RD. Casting a...
Fraction of the fixed carbon incorporated into coral skeletons that is accounted for by heterotrophy Coral 0 - 66 % 114557 Houlbrèque F, Ferrier-Pagès...
Fraction of daily metabolic requirements in healthy and bleached corals that are met by heterotrophy Coral healthy corals 15 - 35: bleached corals ≤100 % 114558 Houlbrèque F, Ferrier-Pagès...
Size of large marine invertebrates Invertebrates sponge Xestospongia muta >7m^3: tube worm Riftia pachyptila >3m: jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai >3m N/A 113317 Smith et al., Body size...
Effective overproduction of epithelial cells Hydra attenuata 10 % 102417 Bosch TC, David CN. Growth...
Ratio between digestive cell numbers in mass cultured and steady state animals Hydra littoralis 1.73 unitless 102415 Campbell RD. Tissue dynamics...
Ratio between Epithelio-muscular cell numbers in mass cultured and steady state animals Hydra littoralis 2 unitless 102416 Campbell RD. Tissue dynamics...
Turgor pressure (exponentially phase) Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 0.05 (0.01) MPa 104997 Martinez de Marañon I...
Time of divergence of organisms in which complement-like genes are present Unspecified >1.3 billion years ago 117097 Klos A, Wende E, Wareham KJ...
Estimates of divergence times among eukaryotes Eukaryotes Table - link N/A 105203 Hedges SB, Blair JE,...
Number of species in different animal phyla classified according to habitat Various Table - link N/A 101843 May RM. How Many Species...
Metazoan genome size and gene number Various Table - link N/A 103651 C.U.M. Smith Biology...