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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximal swimming speed | Sulfur bacterium Thiovulum majus | ~600 | μm/s | 107652 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Tangential velocity of swimming (fastest prokaryotic swimmer known) | Bacteria Thiovulum spp. | 150 – 600 | μm/sec | 110076 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Swimming parameters | Bacteria Thiovulum majus | 3–10 rotations/sec at a radius of 5–40μm: a pitch of 40-250μm | N/A | 110075 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Maximal swimming speed | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 66 (Table - link) | μm/s | 107651 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Swimming characteristics of various species of Archaea and E. coli | prokaryote | Table - link | N/A | 107650 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Maximal swimming speed | Archaea Methanocaldococcus jannaschii | 589 (Table - link) | μm/s | 107649 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Maximum swimming speed | bacteria | marine bacteria ≤400µm/sec: E. coli 40µm/sec | µm/sec | 112815 | Barbara GM, Mitchell... |
| Compared parameters of microbial swimming | Microbes | Table - link | N/A | 111231 | Garcia-Pichel F. 1989.... |
| Volume of bacterium | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | ~8.4 | µm^3 | 101691 | Signore A, D'Alessandria C... |
| Volume of bacterium | Bacteria Staphylococcus aureus | 1.76 | µm^3 | 101579 | Signore A, D'Alessandria C... |
| Doubling time when grown with sulfur as energy source | Bacteria Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans | 20 (70 hours with addition of 200 mM aluminum sulfate) | Hours | 106585 | Fischer J, Quentmeier A... |
| Diameter of cell | Bacteria Thiovulum spp. | 9 – 18 | μm | 110078 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Sulfur flow on Earth | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 103509 | John Harte, Consider... |
| Major stocks of sulfur | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 103505 | John Harte, Consider... |
| Mass of an individual bacterium | bacteria | 600×10^−18 – 700×10^−18 | Kg | 117320 | Christina L Lewis, Caelli... |
| Redox potentials of sulfur compounds | Generic | Table - link | N/A | 104566 | Daniel C. Brune, Sulfur... |
| Volume of average bacterium in feces | Human Homo sapiens | 1 | μm^3 | 108287 | Cummings JH, Stephen... |
| Average mass of bacterium in stool | Human Homo sapiens | 4.6 | pg | 112998 | Sender R, Fuchs S, Milo... |
| Gibbs free energy of formation for sulfur compounds | Generic | Table - link | N/A | 103643 | Donovan P. Kelly, Th... |
| Number of c-rings in ATPase (equivalent to number of protons (Na+) translocated/rotation) | Bacterium Ilyobacter tartaricus | 11 | Unitless | 106287 | Stahlberg H, Müller DJ... |