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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluctuation in water content of body during normal conditions | Human Homo sapiens | ~2.5L (i.e., ~3% of the total body weight) | Liters | 114382 | Duning T et al., Dehydration... |
| Number of animals in which the ability to walk on water has independently evolved | Metazoa animals | >1200 | species | 116189 | Mammola S, Michalik P... |
| Flux of water through an open MscL channel | Unspecified | ~4 | H2O/nanosecond | 107629 | Haswell ES, Phillips R... |
| 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:... |
| Average time for water to renew in rivers and to be completely replaced in the atmosphere | Biosphere | in rivers renewed once every 16 days: in the atmosphere completely replaced once every 8 days | days | 115098 | Pidwirny, M. (2006).... |
| Concentration of bacteria in rumen before and 4-8 weeks after defaunation | Sheep Ovis aries | before 4.1×10^9: after 1.75×10^10 | bacteria/ml | 112579 | Orpin, C. G., & Letcher... |
| Number of described species of beetles (Coleoptera, the most species-rich group of organisms on Earth) | Insect | ~360,000 | described species | 113121 | Bouchard P et al., F... |
| Concentration of planctomycetes (a phylum of aquatic bacteria) in P3 alkaline compartment of hindgut | Termite Cubitermes ugandensis | ≤2.6e+9 | planctomycetes/ml | 104952 | Köhler T, Stingl U, Meuser K... |
| Cutoff in rRNA sequence identity that delimits genera and species of microorganisms | Various | 95% genera: 98% species | % | 106537 | Fredrik Ba¨ckhed, Ruth E. Ley... |
| Number of species | Cnidaria | 9000 | unitless | 102413 | Lecointre, G. and H.... |
| Size of large marine invertebrates | Invertebrates | sponge Xestospongia muta >7m^3: tube worm Riftia pachyptila >3m: jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai >3m | N/A | 113317 | Smith et al., Body size... |
| Acceleration of cnidocyte discharge | Cnidaria | 40000 | g force | 102414 | G. Kass-Simon and A.A.... |
| Fraction of extant vascular plant families members of which form symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi | Plants | >80 | % of extant families | 113026 | Schüßler, A. et al. (2001)... |
| Number of species in different animal phyla classified according to habitat | Various | Table - link | N/A | 101843 | May RM. How Many Species... |
| Diameter of cell | Archaea Nanoarchaeum equitans | ~400 | nm | 107655 | Huber H, Hohn MJ, Rachel R... |
| Protostome/deuterostome divergence | Metazoa animals | ~1,000 | million years ago | 117100 | Pinto MR, Melillo D,... |
| Fraction of bacteria from four different phyllosphere samples that belong to alphaproteobacteria | Plants | ≤~70 | % | 115370 | Vorholt JA. Microbial... |
| Total number of species | Biosphere | ~9 - 52 | million species | 117274 | Khan S et al., Overview... |
| Extensive variation in genome size within and among the main groups of life | Various | Figure - link | Log10 C-value (Mb) | 110282 | Gregory TR. Synergy between... |