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Effects of the diet on the rumen fermentation, absolute abundance, and alpha diversity of the main microbial groups in sheep Sheep Ovis aries Table - link N/A 117088 Belanche et al., A M...
Fraction of all angiosperms (flowering plants) that are asterids and rosids Plants asterids 41% rosids 24 % 116900 Arrivault S et al., ...
Number of cell types in lung excluding the circulatory cells Unspecified >60 cell types 115523 Stone KC, Mercer RR, Gehr P...
Number of microbial cells, number of species and total mass in gastrointestinal tract Human Homo sapiens total population ~10^14cells: Num. of species ~500-1,000: total mass ~1.5kg N/A 112308 Rubio CA. The Natural...
Number of species in Chlamydomonas genus Green algae Chlamydomonas >450 Species 107477 Editor(s): Dr. Robert...
Estimated total number of species of organisms Biosphere 1e+7 Species 107480 Editor: Dr. Robert A. Meyers...
Number of microbial species contained in one gram of soil Microbes 2,000 to 50,000 Species 107286 Zhili He, Joy D. Van Nostrand...
Number of plants species Biosphere 270,000-400,000 unitless 105635 Saito K, Matsuda F. ...
Number of bacterial species in colon Mammals >400 species 112893 Macpherson AJ, Harris...
Estimated number of different receptors that can be expressed by a naive B cell vertebrates 1e+11 Unitless 103576 Kenneth M. Murphy, Paul...
Genome size data available in land plants as of 2013 Plants Table - link N/A 110276 Dr. Ilia J. Leitch, Prof....
Bacterial population in near coastal water (distributed over 100 different bacterial host species) Biosphere 1e+6 cells/ml 117030 Chibani-Chennoufi S,...
Time when land plants first began to diverge Plants ~450-460 Mya 110277 Dr. Ilia J. Leitch, Prof....
Largest known genome size (amount of DNA, 1C-value) Plant Paris japonica 152.23 (Table - link) pg, corresponds to about 150 Gbp 110278 Dr. Ilia J. Leitch, Prof....
Amount of DNA (1C-value, smallest of any plant) Plant Genlisea aurea 0.065 (Table - link) pg 110279 Dr. Ilia J. Leitch, Prof....
Number of species of extant seed plants (spermatophyte) Plants ~352,000 angiosperms: ~850 gymnosperms Table - link species 110281 Dr. Ilia J. Leitch, Prof....
Microbial community genome size prokaryote in unperturbed organic soils 6,000-10,000: in arable or heavymetal-polluted soils 350-1,500 Escherichia coli genomes 110154 Torsvik V, Øvreås L....
Genomic complexity recovered by culturing methods prokaryote <40 Escherichia coli genomes 110155 Torsvik V, Øvreås L....
bulk density of a cubic meter of soil Biosphere 1440 (Table - link) kg/m^3 100537 De Vos, et al. Predictive...
Genome-scale phylogeny of birds Birds Table - link million years ago 117107 Jarvis ED et al., Wh...