Mean microbial cell volume in deep old marine sediments
|
Microbes |
0.042 |
μm^3 |
115532 |
Braun S et al., Size... |
Fraction of the microbial surface community that dies within a few mm to cm of burial
|
Microbes |
~90 |
% |
115533 |
Braun S et al., Size... |
Relative abundance of microbial populations and amount of rRNA extracted from ruminal and dual-flow continuous culture fermenter samples
|
Microbes |
Table - link |
N/A |
112832 |
Ziemer CJ et al., Comparison... |
Mean carbon content of total microbial cells in the sediment at sub-seafloor deposits at Landsort Deep, Baltic Sea
|
Microbes |
at the sea floor 350μg C/cm^3: ~40m beneath sea floor <5 |
μg C/cm^3 |
115326 |
Braun S et al., Size... |
Cell-specific carbon density in the sediment at sub-seafloor deposits at Landsort Deep, Baltic Sea
|
Microbes |
sea floor depth 200fg C/µm^3: ~10m beneath sea floor 1000fg C/µm^3: ~40m beneath sea floor 600 |
fg C/µm^3 |
115327 |
Braun S et al., Size... |
Cell volumes of microorganisms commonly found in natural environments such as soils, freshwater lakes and rivers, estuarine and brackish waters, coastal and nearshore marine waters, or pelagic marine waters
|
Microbes |
0.05 - 0.5 |
µm^3 |
115344 |
Braun S et al., Size... |
Temp. at which microbes were actively respiring in brine channels in Arctic sea ice
|
prokaryote |
-20 |
°C |
108050 |
Price PB, Sowers T. ... |
Fraction of living biomass in global oceans that are marine microbes
|
Biosphere |
>90 |
% |
113509 |
Weynberg KD, Allen MJ... |
Genome sizes and number of predicted proteins of wild type and engineered prokaryotic microbes
|
prokaryote |
Table - link |
N/A |
108690 |
Mampel J, Buescher JM... |
Number of microbial cells in human body
|
Human Homo sapiens |
10^14 (see BNID 113000 for more updated value of 3.8x10^13) |
microbial cells (mostly bacteria)/human body |
102392 |
Savage DC. Microbial... |
Fraction of the world’s photosynthetic activity that is accounted for by the phytoplankton component of marine microbes
|
Biosphere |
~50 |
% |
113510 |
Weynberg KD, Allen MJ... |
Ratio between number of microbial cells and number of animal cells in body
|
Human Homo sapiens |
10 (outdated, updated value is 1.3, see comments section) |
unitless |
102391 |
Savage DC. Microbial... |
Fraction of all microbial cells that inhabit the deep biosphere (accounting for a third to half of all living biomass carbon on Earth)
|
Biosphere |
94 |
% of all microbial cells |
115328 |
Braun S et al., Size... |
Cell specific carbon content in marine sediments
|
Biosphere |
(Parkes et al., 1994) 65 fgC/cell: (Whitman et al.,1998) 86 |
fgC/cell |
115337 |
Braun S et al., Size... |
Fraction of phytoplankton (that contribute approximately half of the global productivity) mass out of total mass in photosynthetic organisms worldwide
|
Biosphere |
<0.5 |
% |
113987 |
Kaplan A. Cyanophages:... |
Ratio between number of genes in human gut “metagenome” and human eukaryotic genome
|
Human Homo sapiens |
>100 |
unitless |
111317 |
De Filippo C. et al.... |
Origins and emerging consensus of the 10:1 ratio of virus abundance to bacteria abundance in aquatic systems - from freshwater lakes to the global oceans
|
Biosphere |
Table - link |
N/A |
112654 |
Charles H. Wigington et al.... |
Variation in the peptide chain elongation rate and the number of active ribosomes in the cell per one amino acid in synthesised proteins in various microbes
|
Various |
Table - link |
N/A |
107194 |
Karpinets TV, Greenwood DJ... |
Fraction of faecal solids that is bacteria
|
Human Homo sapiens |
54.7 (±1.7) |
% |
108285 |
Stephen AM, Cummings... |
Amount of bacteria in soil
|
Biosphere |
10^8 to 10^9 |
cfu/g soil |
107505 |
Topley and Wilson's ... |