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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraction of viral particles removed from seawater | Red Sea sponge Negombata magnifica | 23 | % | 113290 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Number of choanocyte chambers in sponge tissue and number of choanocytes per chamber | Sponges phylum Porifera | choanocyte chambers ~10^7/cm^3: choanocytes per choanocyte chamber ≤150 | N/A | 113288 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Concentration of viruses in seawater | Virus | 10^6-10^8 | viral particles/ml | 113291 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Sponges arised (in evolution) at least as early as | Sponges phylum Porifera | 600 | Mya | 113285 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Concentration of arsenic and barium | Sponge Theonella swinhoei | arsenic 8,500: barium >10,000 | mg/kg dry weight | 113273 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Fraction of body volume occupied by bacteria | Sponge Theonella swinhoei | ≤40 | % of body volume | 113271 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Average size of mRNA molecules in sea urchin embryos | Sea urchin | ~2.5 | kb | 107676 | Ben-Tabou de-Leon S,... |
| Some transcription and prevalence parameters for sea urchin embryos | Sea urchin | Table - link | N/A | 105012 | Bolouri H, Davidson EH.... |
| Relative mass of elements and relative amount of elements in arsenic-tolerant bacteria in sponge Theonella swinhoei | bacteria | Table - link | % | 113274 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Number of body volumes that sponge can filter | Sponges phylum Porifera | ≤50,000 | sponge body volumes/24 hours | 113270 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Light optimum for carbon dioxide uptake in deepest photosynthesizing red algae | Red algae | 0.05 | μmol/m^2/sec | 107741 | Lars Olof Bjorn, Effect... |
| Number of formally described sponge species | Sponges phylum Porifera | 6000 | formally described species | 113275 | Hentschel, U., Usher... |
| Amount of water pumped through a 1-kg sponge in a single day | Sponges phylum Porifera | ≤24,000 | liters/day | 113284 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Size range (for information on largest sponge see Comments section) | Sponges phylum Porifera | a few millimeters to nearly 2 meters | N/A | 113276 | Hentschel, U., Usher... |
| Nucleosome repeat length typical of sea urchin sperm | Black Sea Urchin Arbacia lixula | 237 | bp | 111128 | Robinson PJ, Fairall L... |
| O2 concentration in illuminated sponge capitulum tissue | Sunflower Helianthus annuus | 241 (±2.8) | μM | 108723 | Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L... |
| Concentration of bacteria | Sponges phylum Porifera | ≤10^10 | bacteria/ml sponge volume | 113272 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Estimated sulfate reduction rate | Cold-water sponge Geodia barretti | ≤1,200 | nmol [SO4]2-/cm^3 sponge/day | 113286 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Fraction of bacterial cells removed from the inhalant seawater by the filtering activities of the sponge | Sponges phylum Porifera | ≤96 | % | 113287 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Maximum depth of photosynthesizing alga/plants | Red algae | 268 | meters | 107740 | Lars Olof Bjorn, Effect... |