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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAR11 clade of marine Alphaproteobacteria constitute | Biosphere | ≤25% of all ocean microbes (50% in some surface waters) ≤12% of the marine prokaryotic biomass | % | 115574 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Fraction of prokaryotes in oceanic surface waters killed daily by viruses | Biosphere | 20 to 40 | % | 106625 | Suttle CA. Marine vi... |
| Fraction of microbial biomass in the ocean killed daily by viruses | Biosphere | 20 | % | 105604 | Suttle CA. Marine vi... |
| Fraction of bacteria in ocean surface waters that carry proteorhodopsin (depending on oceanic region and detection method) | bacteria | 15% to > 70% | % | 111293 | Kirchman DL, Hanson TE.... |
| Carbon per cell in volume range 0.036 to 0.073µm^3 | Bacteria Escherichia coli | (Lee and Fuhrman 1987) 20 fg C/cell: (present study) 13 - 19 | fg C/cell | 115335 | Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam... |
| Length of rod-shaped bacterial cells that are too large for feeding by Daphnia magna | Crustacean Daphnia magna | >6 | µm | 115629 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Virioplankton abundance in aquatic environments | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 105601 | Wommack KE, Colwell RR.... |
| Fraction of bacterioplanktonic population in fresh water system | Bacteria Polynucleobacter necessarius asymbioticus | 20 (<1 to 70) | % | 107567 | Hahn MW, Scheuerl T,... |
| Number of PR [proteorhodopsin] molecules in various types of PRP [(PR)-based phototrophic] bacteria | bacteria | Table - link | proteorhodopsins/cell | 111296 | Kirchman DL, Hanson TE.... |
| Percent of bacteria that contain a functional viral genome in bacterial communities in surface and deep waters | bacteria | 35 | % | 109020 | Weinbauer MG. Ecology... |
| 2C DNA content for haploid | Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe | 33.8 | fg/cell | 108270 | PombeNet Almanac htt... |
| Cell volume | Cyanobacteria Synechococcus WH7803 | 1.8 | µm^3 | 104843 | Brown, C.M., Lawrence... |
| Recorded variations in cell concentration in sea | Microbes | ≤20-fold over 10 to 30 mm | N/A | 110358 | Stocker R. Marine microbes... |
| Cutoff in rRNA sequence identity that delimits genera and species of microorganisms | Various | 95% genera: 98% species | % | 106537 | Fredrik Ba¨ckhed, Ruth E. Ley... |
| Cell volume | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 0.1-3.5 | μm^3 | 100003 | Loferer-Krössbacher, M.... |
| Fraction of inorganic carbon in the mesopelagic western North Atlantic that is fixed by Nitrospinae | Bacteria Nitrospinae spp. | 15 - 45 | % | 115201 | Pachiadaki MG et al.... |
| Concentration in world's nutrient-poorest sea water | Anaerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic AAP bacteria | <=194000 | cells/ml | 103898 | Lami R, Cottrell MT, Ras J... |
| Cell concentration at 1m depth at sea | Cyanobacteria | 22000 (±4000) | cells/ml | 103900 | Pitta P, Karakassis I.... |
| Concentration in world's nutrient-poorest sea water | Prochlorococcus | 100-316000 | cells/ml | 103897 | Lami R, Cottrell MT, Ras J... |
| Oxygen concentration below which 50% of coastal marine animal species die | Various | ~70 | μmol/kg | 108704 | Seibel BA. Critical oxygen... |