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Macromolecular composition of organisms expressed as perccent dry weight Various Table - link % 108211 Morowitz, H. J. 1968....
Rate of protein synthesis from mRNA transcript (median) Mammalian tissue culture cell original 2011 value ~140: updated 2013 value 1,000 Proteins/mRNA/hour 106382 Schwanhäusser B, Busse D...
Physical chemical properties of various actins Various Table - link N/A 111045 Pollard TD, Weihing RR....
Concentrations of ions commonly found in the cytosol and the surrounding environment for mammalian cells compared to their concentration in sea water Mammalian tissue culture cell Table - link mM 107426 Boal David, Mechanics...
Marine extinction rates for the last few million years Metazoa animals cetaceans 0.06: marine carnivores 0.04: echinoids 0.01: brachiopods 0.001 genera extinctions per million genera per year 112641 De Vos JM, Joppa LN,...
Metazoan genome size and gene number Various Table - link N/A 103651 C.U.M. Smith Biology...
Abundance of elements Biosphere Table - link ppm 103490 John Harte, Consider...
Number of species Cnidaria 9000 unitless 102413 Lecointre, G. and H....
Astaxanthin content according to feed Fish bream Pagrus major 13.23 fed astaxanthin esters: 7.94 fed free astaxanthin mg/kg 106029 Lorenz RT, Cysewski GR....
Minimal generation time Bacteria Vibrio natriegens 9.8 Minutes 100297 R. G. Eagon, Pseudomonas...
Flux of photons Biosphere 4E+21 Photons/m^2/sec 100324 Noy D, Moser CC, Dutton...
Fraction of global biomass contained in oceans Biosphere 0.22 % 116129 Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM...
Fraction of sponges within a community in which the presence of photosynthetic symbionts can occur Sponges phylum Porifera ≤85 % 114511 Blackall LL, Wilson B...
Fraction of earth's upper oceans occupied by coral reefs and fraction of the globe's marine species they provide habitat for Biosphere <0.1% of earth's upper oceans: ~25% of the globe's marine species % 114509 Blackall LL, Wilson B...
Number of described Scelerantinian corals (stony corals or hard corals) as of 1999 Coral ~1300 described scleractinian species 114510 Blackall LL, Wilson B...
Population density Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp. 10^7-10^8 cells/liter 113304 Kashtan N et al., Single-cell...
Fraction of living biomass in global oceans that are marine microbes Biosphere >90 % 113509 Weynberg KD, Allen MJ...
Fraction of the world’s photosynthetic activity that is accounted for by the phytoplankton component of marine microbes Biosphere ~50 % 113510 Weynberg KD, Allen MJ...
Length of siRNA Human Homo sapiens 21-23 nucleotides 102484 Elbashir SM, Harborth J...
Amount of labile organic material released from prokaryotic cells by virus lysis Biosphere 0.37-0.65 Gigaton carbon/year 104966 Danovaro R, Dell'Anno A...