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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of beating cilia on the entire surface of a single cell | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 10000 | beating cilia/cell | 110791 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Number of genes (one of the gene-richest organisms) | Ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia | 40000 (Table - link) | unitless | 105796 | Aury JM, et al., Global... |
| Ratio of oxygen consumption rate per cell with stirring to that without stirring | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 0.97 (±0.56) | unitless | 110785 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Total energy consumption | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 0.19e-9 – 4.4e–9 or (0.38e-5 – 8.8e–5J/hour/cell) | LO2/hour | 110781 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Length above which bacteria Serratia liquefaciens cells cannot be consumed by ciliate Tetrahymena sp. | Bacteria Serratia liquefaciens | 15 | µm | 115627 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Swimming speed | Ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia | 140 to 470 | μm/sec | 108087 | Bonini NM, Nelson DL.... |
| Mean density of cell | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | 1.04 | g/cm^3 | 110792 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Cell volume | Ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis | 17067 | µm^3 | 114965 | William D. Taylor and... |
| Swimming speed | Ciliate Paramecium caudatum | In a depolarizing solution of 4mM K+ (0.76±0.16mm/s) in standard solution 1mM K+ (0.99±0.26mm/s) | mm/s | 110786 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Cell volume | Tetrahymena pyriformis (GL) | 19500 (±2,865) | µm^3 | 114964 | Andrew Rogerson, The... |
| Number of ribosomes | Tetrahymena thermophila | Log phase 108×10^6: Stationary (starved) 40×10^6 | ribosomes/cell | 114959 | Calzone FJ, Stathopoulos VA... |
| Length of bacterial cells Cyclidium spp. have difficulty feeding on | Protozoa Cyclidium spp. | >4 - 5 | µm | 115654 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Number and length of genes and introns in sequenced unicellular eukaryotes and model organisms | Eukaryotes | Table - link | N/A | 105797 | Aury JM, et al., Global... |
| Number of cilia on cells that contain multiple cilia | Human Homo sapiens | 200-300 | unitless | 105742 | Fliegauf M, Benzing T... |
| Swimming efficiency | Metazoa animals | rainbow trout ~10% squid ~5% | % | 110789 | Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F... |
| Frequency of cilia beating | Tetrahymena thermophila | 15.9 (±3.7) | Hz | 111437 | Wood CR, Hard R, Hennessey... |
| Number of plastomes (plastid genomes) | Unicellular eukaryote Apicomplexa spp. | 15 to 25 | Copies/cell | 106240 | Seeber F, Soldati-Favre... |
| Biomass yields from some aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs) cultivated outdoors on large-scale | Various | Table - link | N/A | 103808 | Dismukes GC, Carrieri D... |
| Diameter of the smallest eukaryote | Ostreococcus tauri | 1 | µm | 100494 | Palenik B, Grimwood J... |
| Genome size of smallest free living eukaryote | Ostreococcus tauri | 12.56 | Mb | 101523 | Bowman JL, Floyd SK,... |