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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global respiration of flora and fauna | Biosphere | 4.0 x 10^15 - 4.3 x 10^15 | mol O2/year | 116115 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Fraction of world vascular plant flora that Mediterranean-type climate (MTC) regions (covering only about 2.2% of world land area) are home to | Biosphere | 16.7 | % of world vascular plant flora | 117260 | Rundel PW et al., Fire... |
| Increase in calorie intake required to maintain body weight in germ-free rats | Rat Rattus norvegicus | 30 | % | 102389 | Hooper LV, Gordon JI.... |
| Number of bacterial species in gut | Human Homo sapiens | total >1,000: in gut of any individual ~160 | species | 113400 | Rowland I et al., Gut... |
| Quantity of spores produced in ΔSterne strain after incubation with phages | Bacteria Bacillus anthracis | ~5×10^8 | spores/ml | 117015 | Fortier LC, Sekulovic... |
| Number of bacterial species-level and genus-level operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in human and worm & phylotype number in termite | Metazoa animals | species-level OTUs in human ~1,000: genus-level OTUs in worm 832: phylotypes in termite hindgut 216 | OTUs/phylotypes per individual | 113942 | Shapira M. Gut Microbiotas... |
| Percent of indigenous gastrointestinal tract microflora that are obligate anaerobes | Human Homo sapiens | 99.9 | % | 105706 | Berg RD. The indigenous... |
| Predominant bacterial species isolated from feces | Human Homo sapiens | Table - link | % | 112897 | Adrian Lee, 1985, Neglected... |
| Rate of turnover of e. coli strains in intestine | Human Homo sapiens | 2-4 | weeks | 102540 | Hartl DL, Dykhuizen DE.... |
| Number of species of bacteria in mammalian large intestine | bacteria | 400-500 | unitless | 105655 | Peekhaus N, Conway T.... |
| Fraction of 16S rDNAs molecular species that correspond to known organisms in fecal sample | Human Homo sapiens | 24 | % | 110959 | Suau A et al., Direct... |
| Moisture content in feces | Human Homo sapiens | 26 | % | 110960 | Suau A et al., Direct... |
| Frequency of lysogenization of host cells during infection by temperate phages | Bacteriophage | 10^-7 - 10^-2 | unitless | 112567 | Letarov A, Kulikov E.... |
| Rate of spontaneous phage production | Bacteriophage (host vaginal Lactobacillus) | <10^-8 | pfu/cell | 112568 | Letarov A, Kulikov E.... |
| Usual concentration of bacteria in stomach | Human Homo sapiens | <1,000 | cfu/ml | 110219 | Simon GL, Gorbach SL.... |
| Number of species in microbiome | Human Homo sapiens | 500-1000 | unitless | 102387 | Sears CL. A dynamic ... |
| Ratio between number of genes in microbiome and in human | Human Homo sapiens | 50-100 | unitless | 102388 | Sears CL. A dynamic ... |
| Overall frequency of plant species that hybridize | Plants | 0.09 | hybrid combinations per nonhybrid species | 113466 | Yakimowski SB, Rieseberg... |
| Ratio of anaerobic/aerobic bacteria in faeces | Human Homo sapiens | 1000 | anaerobes/aerobes | 112842 | A. Lidbeck and C. E. Nord... |
| Fraction of plant species that hybridize | Plants | according to floristic surveys ~10: in a township in Massachusets ~3: in the British Isles ~25 | % | 113465 | Yakimowski SB, Rieseberg... |