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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divergence of arthropods and priapulids | Metazoa animals | ~575 | million years ago | 117102 | Peterson KJ, Cotton JA... |
| Mean run speed at 20 deg C | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | 0.129 | mm/sec | 100908 | Ramot D, MacInnis BL... |
| Mass-specific metabolic rate (RMIN) of organisms in various energy-saving regimes | Eukaryotes | Table - link | W/kg | 108058 | Makarieva AM, Gorshkov VG... |
| Folding free energy of the average protein | Various | -7.1 E. coli: -8.8 S. cerevisiae: -8:2 C. elegans | kcal/mol | 107069 | Ghosh K, Dill K. Cellular... |
| Life span | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | 2 (1.5 - 3) | Weeks | 100303 | Muschiol D, Schroeder F... |
| Global median phytoplankton concentration | Biosphere | 0.56 | mg/m^3 | 105536 | Boyce DG, Lewis MR, Worm... |
| Size of genome | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | 1e+8 | bp | 101363 | Hillier LW, Coulson A... |
| Comparison of some methods for manual and semiautomatic embryonic lineage recording | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | Table - link | N/A | 108372 | Giurumescu CA, Chisholm... |
| Time in development in which male-specific or hermaphrodite-specific neurons die | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | ~470 | min | 112376 | Michael H. L. Snow, Cell... |
| A comparison of protein length distributions for Caenorhabditis elegans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli and the archaebacterium Methanococcus jannaschi | Various | Figure - link | N/A | 113367 | Netzer WJ, Hartl FU.... |
| Median protein length | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | 344 (Table - link) | Amino acids | 106447 | Brocchieri L, Karlin... |
| Fraction of proteome that is membrane proteins | Eukaryotes | 31% C. elegans: 21% E. coli: 20% D. melanogaster | % | 106431 | Almén MS, Nordström KJ... |
| 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... |
| Body size of adult hermaphrodites that had just matured (started laying eggs) at 24˚C, N2 background | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | 1.8 (0.2) | nL | 101424 | Gutteling EW, Doroszuk A... |
| Fraction of >50,000 conopeptides (neuroactive peptides of the venom) that have been characterized pharmacologically | Predatory cone snail Conus spp. | <0.1 | % | 115226 | Singer HM et al., Selective... |
| Genome Size | Nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae | 1.04e+8 | Base pairs | 100281 | Stein et al, The genome... |
| 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... |