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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...
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 &...
Specific nitrogen content Flagellate spp. 21 fgN/μm^3 108150 Knut Yngve Borsheim &...
Monas sp. composition of an enrichment culture Chlamydomonas spp. Table - link N/A 108148 Knut Yngve Borsheim &...
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...
Number of species of bacteria in the foregut of ruminant animals Ruminants >200 species 117318 Matthews et al., The...
Number of species in which intraspecific (same-species) brood parasitism has been reported Birds ~200 bird species 117276 Stevens M. Bird brood...
Number of bacterial species in colon Mammals >400 species 112893 Macpherson AJ, Harris...
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...
C:N:P molar ratios (±std) of cultures of Fungi and Bacteria Microbes Table - link unitless 113035 Céline Mouginot et al....
Number of Ebola virus species Ebola virus 5 species 111116 Radzimanowski J, Effantin G...
Number of extant species Crustacea >52,000 species 117178 Thomas W. Cronin & Megan...
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...
Half-life of CR-actin in epithelial keratocytes Goldfish Carassius spp. 3.8 (±1) min 109824 Theriot JA, Mitchison...