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Estimates of the biosphere's domesticated vertebrates biomass vertebrates 100 to 120 Table - link Mt C 109624 Vaclav Smil, The Earth's...
General features of the genome of Synechococcus UTEX 2973 compared to genomes of other related cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria Synechococcus spp. Table - link N/A 112487 Yu J et al., Synechococcus...
Doubling times of Synechococcus UTEX 2973 and other model cyanobacterial strains under different conditions Cyanobacteria Table - link hrs 112484 Yu J et al., Synechococcus...
Shortest doubling time of Synechococcus UTEX 2973 Cyanobacteria Synechococcus spp. 1.9 hrs 112485 Yu J et al., Synechococcus...
Dry weight at beginning of experiment & 16 hours later Cyanobacteria Synechococcus spp. Synechococcus UTEX 2973 0.13±0.01 to 0.87±0.03: Synechococcus PCC 7942 0.12±0.02 to 0.33±0.03 mg/ml 112486 Yu J et al., Synechococcus...
Typical heat power delivered by a cell Rodent ≤~100 pW 110889 Baffou G, Rigneault H...
Percentage of phytoplankton (including bacteria) grazed per day Biosphere 25%-100% % 115619 Young KD. The selective...
Fraction of thymines in DNA that are replaced by the unusual base, 5-hydroxymethyluracil (HOMedU) Dinoflagellates 16 – 28 % of the thymines 114600 Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan...
Number of chromosomes, DNA amount per cell, nuclear volume & chromosome volume Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans 65 chromosomes: 7E10 nucleotide pairs: volumes-nucleus 3,450µm^3 -chromosome 20µm^3 N/A 114598 Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan...
Number of chromosomes, DNA amount per cell, nuclear volume & chromosome volume Dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii 95-100 chromosomes: 1.4E10 nucleotide pairs: volumes-nucleus 690µm^3 -chromosome 2.6µm^3 N/A 114599 Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan...
Doubling time when grown in glucose mineral medium, pH 3.5 Bacteria Acidobacterium capsulatum 5.6 Hours 106584 Fischer J, Quentmeier A...
Fraction of total gene sequences that are shared with other organism groups Mouse Mus musculus prokaryotes 23%: non-animal eukaryotes (protists, fungi, and plants) 29%: nonchordate animals 27 % 117010 Gerhart J, Kirschner...
A timeline showing OMZ (oxygen minimum zone) chemistry, the relative contributions from different primary producers, and the evolution of eukaryotic heterotrophs Biosphere Figure - link Mya 110483 Johnston DT, Wolfe-Simon F...
Estimates of the biosphere's oceanic invertebrates biomass Invertebrates 300 to 500 Table - link Mt C 109626 Vaclav Smil, The Earth's...
Estimates of the biosphere's land fungi biomass Fungus 3,000 to 6,000 Table - link Mt C 109620 Vaclav Smil, The Earth's...
Estimates of the biosphere's human biomass Human Homo sapiens 40 Table - link Mt C 109625 Vaclav Smil, The Earth's...
Size scale of prokaryotic cells, from the largest to the smallest prokaryote Table - link N/A 110077 Schulz HN, Jorgensen...
Total energy consumption Ciliate Paramecium caudatum 0.19e-9 – 4.4e–9 or (0.38e-5 – 8.8e–5J/hour/cell) LO2/hour 110781 Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F...
CO2 production rate calculated by model Sunflower Helianthus annuus 2064 (±53) nmol CO2/h/embryo 108765 Alonso AP, Goffman FD...
Cell volume Amoeba Proteus 9.36e+5 μm^3 117325 Peyman Fahimi and Ch ́erif...