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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length of eukaryotic cilia | Frog Xenopus tropicalis | 6 (±1) | µm | 105112 | Neugebauer JM, Amack JD... |
| Genome size of coronaviruses | Coronavirus spp. | 27 to 32 | kb | 105973 | Ruan YJ et al., Comparative... |
| Specific carbon content | Flagellate spp. | 96.1 | fgC/μm^3 | 108151 | Knut Yngve Borsheim &... |
| Cell volume | Tetrahymena pyriformis (GL) | 19500 (±2,865) | µm^3 | 114964 | Andrew Rogerson, The... |
| Specific nitrogen content | Flagellate spp. | 21 | fgN/μm^3 | 108150 | Knut Yngve Borsheim &... |
| 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... |
| Time of divergence between Drosophila species | Drosophila spp. | ~5.4 D. simulans from D. melan.:0.5 D. sechellia from D. sim: 0.1 to 0.3 D. mauritiana from D. sim | Million years ago | 106175 | Sousa-Neves R, Rosas... |
| Maximum chlorophyll a (Chla) content | Diatoms | ~45 | μg Chla/l | 116825 | Kranz SA, Young JN, Hopkinson... |
| Production & division rate estimates integrated over the water column at the equator in the Pacific | Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp. | Table - link | N/A | 113039 | Vaulot D, Marie D, Olson RJ... |
| Number of genes | Prochlorococcus | ~1,900 | genes | 111980 | Hopkinson BM, Young JN... |
| C:N:P molar ratios (±std) of cultures of Fungi and Bacteria | Microbes | Table - link | unitless | 113035 | Céline Mouginot et al.... |
| Size of disk-shaped cells (smallest reported archaea) | Archaea Thermodiscus spp. | diameter ≥0.2μm: disk-thickness 0.1–0.2μm | μm | 110071 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Length of bacterial cells selected for predation by Ochromonas | Nanoflagellate Ochromonas spp. | <0.9 | µm | 115728 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Number of rod-shaped bacterial cells in small, filamentous, or stellate chains that survive Ochromonas predation | Nanoflagellate Ochromonas spp. | ≤900 | cells per chain | 115657 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Daughter cell dimensions (eight or more daughter cells are attached to one another to form short filaments) | Bacteria Simonsiella spp. | with respect to length of the filament 0.5μm - 1.3μm: width 1.9μm to 6.4μm | μm | 115599 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Wingspan of Meganeura spp., extinct flying insects ~3 times the size of the largest flying insects today | Insect | >65 - 71 | cm | 113319 | Smith et al., Body size... |
| Number of ribosomes | Tetrahymena thermophila | Log phase 108×10^6: Stationary (starved) 40×10^6 | ribosomes/cell | 114959 | Calzone FJ, Stathopoulos VA... |
| Half-life of CR-actin in epithelial keratocytes | Goldfish Carassius spp. | 3.8 (±1) | min | 109824 | Theriot JA, Mitchison... |
| Number of protein coding genes | Coronavirus spp. | 23 | Unitless | 105974 | Ruan YJ et al., Comparative... |
| Experimentally inferred neutral mutation rate | Drosophila spp. | 3.46х10^-9 | 1/bp/generation | 108233 | Obbard DJ, Maclennan J... |