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Volume of bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis ~8.4 µm^3 101691 Signore A, D'Alessandria C...
Volume of bacterium Bacteria Staphylococcus aureus 1.76 µm^3 101579 Signore A, D'Alessandria C...
Mass of an individual bacterium bacteria 600×10^−18 – 700×10^−18 Kg 117320 Christina L Lewis, Caelli...
Volume of average bacterium in feces Human Homo sapiens 1 μm^3 108287 Cummings JH, Stephen...
Average mass of bacterium in stool Human Homo sapiens 4.6 pg 112998 Sender R, Fuchs S, Milo...
Number of c-rings in ATPase (equivalent to number of protons (Na+) translocated/rotation) Bacterium Ilyobacter tartaricus 11 Unitless 106287 Stahlberg H, Müller DJ...
Maximal swimming speed Sulfur bacterium Thiovulum majus ~600 μm/s 107652 Herzog & Wirth, 2012....
Approximate chemical composition of a bacterium, yeast and mammalian cell Various Table - link g/cm^3 111209 Feijó Delgado et al....
Composition of Escherichia coli, a typical gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium Bacteria Escherichia coli Table - link N/A 107479 Editor: Dr. Robert A. Meyers...
Date of endosymbiosis of a free-living bacterium that led to mitochondria Unspecified ~2 Billion years ago 107042 Kiefel BR, Gilson PR...
Volume of protoplasm generated in 48 hours by one bacterium that has an intracellular volume of 1 μm3, a doubling time of 20 min and constantly divides bacteria 2.2E+25 m^3 109506 Russell JB, Cook GM....
Stable, soluble and toxic metals plus essential transition metals and number of atoms in bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans Biosphere Table - link N/A 114114 Nies DH. The biological...
Bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) content and the number of PSUs [photosynthetic units] per AAP [aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic] bacterium bacteria Table - link N/A 111297 Kirchman DL, Hanson TE....
Concentration of heterologously-produced β carotene in stationary phase Bacteria Zymomonas mobilis 220 µg/g dry weight 106032 Misawa N, Yamano S, Ikenaga...
Concentration of heterologously-produced β carotene in stationary phase Bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens 350 µg/g dry weight 106033 Misawa N, Yamano S, Ikenaga...
Cell membrane thickness Bacteria Pseudomonas fluorescence 5-10 nm 103947 EL-Hag, A. Jayaram, S.H....
Typical cellular speed Bacteria Listeria monocytogenes 0.1 μm/sec 106823 Rafelski SM, Alberts JB...
Fraction of cell volume that is periplasmic space Bacteria Escherichia coli ≈40 % 115332 Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam...
Carbon:cell volume ratios determined from carbon measurements in bacterial cultures or in size-fractionated natural bacterial assemblages bacteria (Bjørnsen 1986) 354 mg C/ml: (Lee and Fuhrman 1987) 380 mg C/ml: (Bratbak 1985) 560 mg C/ml 115334 Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam...
Carbon per cell in volume range 0.036 to 0.073µm^3 Bacteria Escherichia coli (Lee and Fuhrman 1987) 20 fg C/cell: (present study) 13 - 19 fg C/cell 115335 Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam...