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Rate of activation of phosphodiesterase (PDE) catalytic subunits per photoisomerized rhodopsin vertebrates 80 (maximum 90) sec^-1 111005 Leskov, I. B., V. A. Klenchin...
Fraction of 3,623 terrestrial invertebrate species and of 1,306 marine invertebrate species that are classified as threatened with extinction Invertebrates terrestrial species 42%: marine species 25% % 117264 Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR...
Fraction of the ≈10,000 presently known bird species that have become extinct since A.D. 1500 Birds ≈1.3 % 116938 Pimm S, Raven P, Peterson A...
Fraction of the four billion species estimated to have evolved on the Earth over the last 3.5 billion years that are extinct Biosphere ~99 % 112752 Barnosky AD et al., Has...
Dissociation constant of the streptavidin and biotin interaction (highest affinity among naturally occurring non-covalent bonds) Generic 10^-13 - 10^-16 M 114157 Park M et al., Orientation...
Divergence rate for protein coding mitochondrial DNA in mammals and birds vertebrates 0.02 substitutions/site/Myr 113217 Peterson GI, Masel J....
Mean cell diameters of eleven types of mammalian cells Mammals Table - link µm 115473 Ocqueteau C et al., ...
Cell diameter Cyanobacteria Synechocystis PCC 6803 2.07 (1.67 - 2.46) µm 114564 Zavřel, T., Očenášová...
Diameter of cell Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) 14.02-15.21 µm 101901 Han et al. Cultivation...
Cell (filamentous shaped) dimensions during exponential growth at 3°C Bacteria Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 diameter average 0.45±0.067 (range 0.38-0.64): length average 8.57±4 (range 3.04-16) µm 112813 Abboud R et al., Low...
Standard screening threshold of sequence difference in cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene to define different species Metazoa animals 10 × (times) average intraspecific difference 113002 Hebert PD, Stoeckle MY...
Mass-specific metabolic rates q across life Biosphere Table - link W/kg 107981 Makarieva AM, Gorshkov VG...
Milestones in the evolution of the Earth and its biosphere Biosphere Table - link Years before present 109596 Vaclav Smil, The Earth's...
Genome size and number of genes of various organisms Various Data base link - link base pairs 103246 John W. Kimball Biology...