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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electric potential of contractile vacuole lumen relative to the cytosol | Protozoan Paramecium multimicronucleatum | ~80 | mV | 112731 | Raven JA, Doblin MA.... |
| Electric potential of mitochondria due to concentration gradient | Mitochondria | 180 | mV | 106148 | Liberman EA, Topaly VP... |
| Mean density of cell | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 1.04 | g/cm^3 | 110792 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Genome size (largest reliable protozoan genome) | Dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra | 100 (Table - link) | pgm | 110492 | B. J. Shuter, J. E. Thomas... |
| Intracellular osmolarity | Chlamydomonas spp. | 85 | osmol/m^3 | 112732 | Raven JA, Doblin MA.... |
| Mean DNA content by mass in protozoan cell | Eukaryotes | 3.2 | fg DNA/cell | 105853 | Dell'Anno A, Danovaro... |
| Minimum doubling time | Protozoan Entonium | 5.5 | hours | 102395 | Brock TD. Microbial growth... |
| Fraction of cyst wall that is chitin | Protozoan Entamoeba spp. | ~25 | % | 115065 | Martınez, Jose´ P Falomir... |
| Total energy expenditure and swimming power (Ps) | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | total expenditure 4.02e–6 swimming power 2.84e–6 | J/hour | 110788 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Fraction of energy used for swimming | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | ~70 | % | 110784 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Total power of beating cilia on the entire surface of a single cell | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 2.9E-07 | J/hour | 110790 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Power of swimming (mechanical work done per unit time) | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 3.4e-9 (0.004–0.09% of total energy expenditure) | J/hour | 110783 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Length and number of cilia | Ciliate Paramecium spp. | length 100µm - 300µm: number of cilia 5,000 - 6,000 | N/A | 112283 | Martinac B, Saimi Y,... |
| Number of beating cilia on the entire surface of a single cell | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 10000 | beating cilia/cell | 110791 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| PPi concentration | Protozoan Entamoeba histolytica | 0.1 to 1.0 | mM | 108179 | Mertens E. Pyrophosp... |
| Standard metabolic rate (SMR) of a single cell | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 1.18E-06 | J/hour | 110787 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| 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... |
| Number of genes (one of the gene-richest organisms) | Ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia | 40000 (Table - link) | unitless | 105796 | Aury JM, et al., Global... |
| Time it takes a cell deprived of light and food to digest all its green endosymbionts | Ciliate Paramecium bursaria | ≤2 | months | 114549 | Esteban GF, Fenchel T... |
| Swimming speed | Ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia | 140 to 470 | μm/sec | 108087 | Bonini NM, Nelson DL.... |