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Cell volume Ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis 17067 µm^3 114965 William D. Taylor and...
Data on DNA content, cell volume and minimum doubling time for twelve species of ciliates Ciliate spp. Table - link N/A 110493 B. J. Shuter, J. E. Thomas...
Concentration of ciliate protozoa in rumen fluid Ruminants 10^4 - 10^6 cells/ml 117316 Matthews et al., The...
Fraction of rumen microbiome biomass that is ciliate protozoa Cow Bos Taurus ≤50 % 117087 Wallace RJ et al., A...
Swimming efficiency Metazoa animals rainbow trout ~10% squid ~5% % 110789 Katsu-Kimura Y, Nakaya F...
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...
Length of rumen ciliates Ciliate spp. ~20 - 200 µm 112829 Yokoyama MG, Johnson...
Frequency of cilia beating Tetrahymena thermophila 15.9 (±3.7) Hz 111437 Wood CR, Hard R, Hennessey...
When deprived of food M. rubrum can multiply for Ciliate Mesodinium rubrum 3 - 4 generations 114544 Esteban GF, Fenchel T...
Electric potential of contractile vacuole lumen relative to the cytosol Protozoan Paramecium multimicronucleatum ~80 mV 112731 Raven JA, Doblin MA....
Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus elemental ratio Green algae C:P≈200 and N:P≈27 N/A 106053 Arrigo KR. Marine mi...
Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus elemental ratio Red algae C:P≈70 and N:P≈10 N/A 106054 Arrigo KR. Marine mi...
Length above which bacteria Serratia liquefaciens cells cannot be consumed by ciliate Tetrahymena sp. Bacteria Serratia liquefaciens 15 µm 115627 Young KD. The selective...
Ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in phytoplankton Biosphere 16 unitless 100590 Arrigo, K.R., Marine...
The Redfield ratio - carbon/nitrogen/phosphorus (C/N/P) ratio in marine plankton (and organic marine detritus) Various 106/16/1 carbon/nitrogen/phosphorus 112423 Jover LF, Effler TC, Buchan A...
Ratio of carbon and nitrogen in amino acid (discovered by analysis of primary sequence of more than 2000 viral proteins) Virus C:N is 3.6:1 unitless 113053 Weitz, Joshua S. Quantitative...
Gene density: one gene every Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster 9000 Base pairs 104337 Adams MD et al, The genome...
Average cortical cell length Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana 7.5 (±0.4) μm 107798 Rutschow HL, Baskin TI...
Number of genes Mycobacterium tuberculosis 3995 unitless 101743 Camus JC, Pryor MJ, Médigue C...