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Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
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Fraction of all species that are at high risk of extinction as of 2004 | Amphibians | ~40 | % of all species | 117259 | Wake DB, Koo MS. Amphibians.... |
The amphibian tree of life | Amphibians | Table - link | number of species for major clades | 117258 | Wake DB, Koo MS. Amphibians.... |
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... |
Loss of evolutionary history across mammalian orders (Expected contribution to phylogenetic diversity (PD)) | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 117256 | Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning... |
Number of mammals that have gone extinct during the sixth mass extinction that started in the Late Pleistocene | Biosphere | >300 | mammal species | 117255 | Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning... |
Lifetime prevalence of cluster headache | Human Homo sapiens | 0.12 | % | 117254 | Nesbitt AD, Goadsby PJ.... |
Diameter of amastigote | Parasite Euglenid Trypanosoma cruzi | ~3 | µm | 117253 | Córdova E, Maiolo E, Corti M... |
Basal circulating insulin levels (in blood) | Rat Rattus norvegicus | ~20 | µU/ml | 117252 | Pocai A et al., Hypothalamic... |
Effectiveness of treating obesity | Human Homo sapiens | most treatments (typical maximal weight loss) <10%: obesity surgery (sustained weight loss) ≤50% | % | 117251 | Berthoud HR. The vagus nerve... |
Proportion of gastric myenteric plexus neurons in which antidromic stimulation of the cervical vagus induced c-Fos expression | Rat Rattus norvegicus | <1 | % of gastric myenteric plexus neurons | 117250 | Berthoud HR, Neuhuber... |
Fraction of nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) neurons activated by gastric distension that show GluR1 immunoreactivity | Unspecified | ~30-40 | % of activated NTS neurons | 117249 | Berthoud HR, Neuhuber... |
The fiber composition of the common hepatic branch of the abdominal vagus (total of about ~3000 fibers) | Rat Rattus norvegicus | afferent 2200: efferent 200: adventitial, non-vagal fibers 600 | fibers | 117248 | Berthoud HR, Neuhuber... |
Life cycle from egg to adult | Alderfly Sialis lutaria | usually ~2: at high altitude in both Switzerland and the French Pyrenees 3: in Denmark 1 | year | 117247 | Elliott, J. M. "Temp... |
Regeneration of drastic lesions that ablate large portions of the pallium (in the cerebrum in the brain) | Salamander axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum | ≤12-15 | weeks | 117246 | Alunni A, Bally-Cuif... |
Length of cycle in which expression of ASCL1 oscillates in undifferentiated progenitors in the neural tube | Mouse Mus musculus | 2-3 | hours | 117245 | Huang C, Chan JA, Schuurmans... |
Time when ectodermal placodes begin to thicken and invaginate to form the olfactory pits | Mouse Mus musculus | between E9.5-E10.5 | E=Embryonic day | 117244 | Huang C, Chan JA, Schuurmans... |
Fraction of cortical progenitors in which both Neurog1 and Neurog2 are coexpressed during the period in which they are both expressed | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | >95 | % of cortical progenitors | 117243 | Huang C, Chan JA, Schuurmans... |
Length of cycle in which expression of Neurog2 oscillates in dividing cortical progenitors | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 2-3 | hours | 117242 | Huang C, Chan JA, Schuurmans... |
Average lifetime of basal filopodia | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | ~500 | sec | 117241 | Axelrod JD. Delivering... |
Frequency of bristle duplication | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | ~1 | % in a specific set of bristles | 117240 | Axelrod JD. Delivering... |