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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specific growth rate of Prochlorococcus in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean | Prochlorococcus | 0.3-0.6 | 1/day | 113496 | MV Zubkov, Faster growth... |
| Predators are typically larger than their prey by | Biosphere | 4 | orders of magnitude | 113592 | Butterfield NJ, Macr... |
| Length above which bacteria Serratia liquefaciens cells cannot be consumed by ciliate Tetrahymena sp. | Bacteria Serratia liquefaciens | 15 | µm | 115627 | Young KD. The selective... |
| SAR11 clade of marine Alphaproteobacteria constitute | Biosphere | ≤25% of all ocean microbes (50% in some surface waters) ≤12% of the marine prokaryotic biomass | % | 115574 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Number of times that C4 carbon fixation (Hatch–Slack pathway) evolved independently | Biosphere | >65 | times | 116890 | Arrivault S et al., ... |
| Number of times viviparity evolved independently within squamate reptiles (lizards & snakes) | Reptiles | ~100 | times | 113182 | Farmer CG. Parental Care:... |
| 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... |
| Total bacteria biomass on Earth (≈15% of the global biomass, predominantly located in deep subsurface environments) | Biosphere | ≈70 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115272 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Mesh size of filter through which bacteria is inhaled | Cladocera Bosmina longirostris | 0.43 - 0.97 | µm | 115727 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Average genome size (for viruses 0.039518 Mb, see comments section) | Various | prokaryotes 3.2147 plants 5,958 animals 4,456 algae 855.59 unicellular eukaryotes 59.529 fungi 31.87 | Mb | 111596 | Landenmark HK, Forgan DH... |
| Time scales in the evolution of life on earth | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 103786 | David L. Nelson, Michael... |