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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of phytoplankton (including bacteria) grazed per day | Biosphere | 25%-100% | % | 115619 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Concentration of marine picoplankton collected in Alaska and North Sea | Bacterioplankton | 0.11×10^9-1.07×10^9 | cells/ml | 105119 | Schut F, de Vries EJ... |
| Fraction of thymines in DNA that are replaced by the unusual base, 5-hydroxymethyluracil (HOMedU) | Dinoflagellates | 16 – 28 | % of the thymines | 114600 | Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan... |
| Number of chromosomes, DNA amount per cell, nuclear volume & chromosome volume | Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans | 65 chromosomes: 7E10 nucleotide pairs: volumes-nucleus 3,450µm^3 -chromosome 20µm^3 | N/A | 114598 | Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan... |
| Number of chromosomes, DNA amount per cell, nuclear volume & chromosome volume | Dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii | 95-100 chromosomes: 1.4E10 nucleotide pairs: volumes-nucleus 690µm^3 -chromosome 2.6µm^3 | N/A | 114599 | Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan... |
| Fraction of total gene sequences that are shared with other organism groups | Mouse Mus musculus | prokaryotes 23%: non-animal eukaryotes (protists, fungi, and plants) 29%: nonchordate animals 27 | % | 117010 | Gerhart J, Kirschner... |
| A timeline showing OMZ (oxygen minimum zone) chemistry, the relative contributions from different primary producers, and the evolution of eukaryotic heterotrophs | Biosphere | Figure - link | Mya | 110483 | Johnston DT, Wolfe-Simon F... |
| Fraction of prokaryotes in oceanic surface waters killed daily by viruses | Biosphere | 20 to 40 | % | 106625 | Suttle CA. Marine vi... |
| Emiliania huxleyi Statistics | Coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi | Data base link - link | N/A | 104884 | http://www.noc.soton... |
| Number of different bacterial species in hindgut | Termite Reticulitermes speratus | >250 | Species | 107407 | Tadmor AD, Ottesen EA... |
| Heat production by Thioglycollate-Elicited Peritoneal (TEP) cells | Mouse Mus musculus | 870 (300 to 25000) | pcal/cell | 107969 | Loike JD, Silverstein SC... |
| Date of fossil | Eukaryotic fossil acritarch Tappania plana | ~1,500 | MYA | 113025 | Javaux EJ, Knoll AH,... |
| Characteristic heat production rate of fermenting rumen bacteria | Ruminants | 160 - 180 | watts/kg bacterial mass | 117321 | Rosenberg E. and Zil... |
| Number of species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 | Biosphere | ~1.2e6 | species | 109316 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
| Number of animal species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth | Eukaryotes | Catalogued ~950,000 Predicted ~7,770,000 Table - link | species | 109318 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
| Number of archaea species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth | Archaea | Catalogued 502 Predicted 455 Table - link | species | 109322 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
| Number of plant species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth | Plants | Catalogued ~216,000 Predicted ~298,000 Table - link | Species | 109319 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
| Number of fungi species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth | Fungus | Catalogued ~43,000 Predicted 611,000 Table - link | Species | 109320 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
| Number of described species | Invertebrates | ~1.4 | million species | 117270 | Régnier C et al., Mass... |
| Pupation occurs sooner in caterpillars that are allowed to aggregate compared to isolated siblings by | Butterfly Small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae | 67 | hours | 113181 | Farmer CG. Parental Care:... |