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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent of speciation events in ferns that involve polyploidization | Plants | 7 | % | 105423 | Otto SP, Whitton J. Polyploid... |
| Percent of speciation events in angiosperms that involve polyploidization | Plants | 2-4 | % | 105421 | Otto SP, Whitton J. Polyploid... |
| Most recent date of speciation of herring gull-species | Birds | <10,000 | years ago | 113001 | Hebert PD, Stoeckle MY... |
| Estimated rates of plant extinction and speciation in the distant past (background), the recent past (Anthropocene), and the future (projected) | Plants | Table - link | S/MSY (species per million species per year) | 113398 | Vellend M et al., Plant... |
| Life cycle length | Magicicada cassini | 17 | years | 101488 | David C. Marshall, John... |
| Life cycle length | Magicicada tredecassini | 13 | years | 101490 | David C. Marshall, John... |
| Time it would take the ~5,400 current mammal species to evolve enough new history to restore net phylogenetic diversity (PD) to preanthropogenic levels | Biosphere | ~500,000 | years | 117257 | Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning... |
| Rate of nucleotide substitution | Spumavirus simian foamy virus (SFV) | 1.7E-08 | substitution/site/year | 112773 | Duffy S, Shackelton LA... |
| Diversification rates for selected taxa derived from different methods of analysis | Eukaryotes | Table - link | species per million species years | 112643 | De Vos JM, Joppa LN,... |
| Time of divergence between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans | Yeast | ~300 | Mya | 113382 | Vlastaridis P et al.... |
| Availability of Fe forms (Fe2+, Fe3+) in seawater from the different epochs | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 101746 | Ilana Berman-Frank, Pernilla... |
| Percent of triploids out of total conceptions | Human Homo sapiens | 1-3 | % | 105419 | McFadden DE, Kwong LC... |
| Population splits and effective population sizes (Ne) during great ape evolution | Apes | Figure - link | N/A | 111515 | Prado-Martinez J et al.... |
| Number of chromosomes in species | Butterfly family lycaenid spp. | in genus Agrodiaetus 10 - 134 chromosomes: majority of lycaenid butterflies 23/24 | chromosomes | 116988 | Kandul NP, Lukhtanov VA... |
| Number of plant species | Plants | ~350,000 (representing an estimated 80–90% of the global total) | species | 113395 | Vellend M et al., Plant... |
| Date of divergence of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica | bacteria | ~140 | Mya | 107087 | Wang L, Reeves PR. The... |
| First appearance of mammals on the world stage and time when most modern mammalian species arose | Mammals | first appearance ~160Ma: most modern species arose 1.8Ma - present | million years ago (Ma) | 112853 | Ley RE et al., Evolution... |
| Average number of species per genera | Mammals | 4.4 | species/genus | 112642 | De Vos JM, Joppa LN,... |
| Number of genes traced to last universal common ancestor (LUCA) | Microbes | 355 | genes | 113041 | Weiss MC et al., The... |
| Time at which Haemophilus influenzae and Mycoplasma genitalium diverged from a common ancestor | bacteria | 1500 | million years ago | 116958 | Peterson SN, Fraser CM.... |