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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates of the biosphere's soil prokaryotic heterotrophic biomass | prokaryote | 15,000 to 26,000 Table - link | Mt C | 109616 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's subterranean prokaryotic heterotrophic biomass | prokaryote | 22,000 to 215,000 Table - link | Mt C | 109618 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's subsea prokaryotic heterotrophic biomass | prokaryote | ? to 303,000 Table - link | Mt C | 109619 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's elephants biomass | Elephant sp. | 0.1 Table - link | Mt C | 109623 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's human biomass | Human Homo sapiens | 40 Table - link | Mt C | 109625 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Mean 3 prime-UTR length in mRNA transcripts | Human Homo sapiens | >=500 | nt | 102574 | Mazumder B, Seshadri V... |
| Mean 5 prime-UTR length in mRNA transcripts | Human Homo sapiens | 150 | nt | 102575 | Mazumder B, Seshadri V... |
| Effective population size | Various | >10^8 for prokaryotes: 10^7 to 10^8 for unicellular eukaryotes | Individuals | 106963 | Lynch M, Conery JS. The... |
| Speed of action potential along non-myelinated invertebrate axons of ~10μm diameter | Various | ≤1 | m/sec | 108981 | Zalc B, Goujet D, Colman... |
| Typical effective population size | Eukaryotes | unicellular eukaryotes <10^8, sometimes 10^6: invertebrates ~10^6: some vertebrates 10^4 | individuals | 112122 | Michael Lynch and Georgi... |
| Action potential speed in myelinated axon | vertebrates | 50 to 100 | m/sec | 108982 | Zalc B, Goujet D, Colman... |
| Number of odorant receptor types | Mammals | 1000 | types | 109135 | Krieger J, Breer H. Olfactory... |
| Number of primary olfactory neurons in the antennae | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | ~1,200 | neurons | 109136 | Krieger J, Breer H. Olfactory... |
| Number of chemosensory cells in the maxillary palp | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | ~120 | neurons | 109137 | Krieger J, Breer H. Olfactory... |
| Resting and spike potentials | Metazoa animals | Table - link | N/A | 110596 | Theodore Holmes Bullock... |
| Velocities of propagation of excitation in some coelenterates | Metazoa animals | Table - link | N/A | 110599 | Theodore Holmes Bullock... |
| Numbers of nerve cell nuclei in main ganglia of three species of rotifers | Metazoa animals | Table - link | nerve cell nuclei | 110600 | Theodore Holmes Bullock... |
| The giant fiber system-afferent and efferent connections | Arthropods | Table - link | N/A | 110603 | Theodore Holmes Bullock... |
| Relative (%) and absolute sizes of parts of the brain | Bee Apis mellifera | Table - link | N/A | 110604 | Theodore Holmes Bullock... |
| Distribution of sense cells of three functionally identified types in different parts of the body in ordinary wrinkled skin | Roman snail Helix pomatia | Table - link | N/A | 110605 | Theodore Holmes Bullock... |