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Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
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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... |
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... |
Number of times bacteria <0.5µm in diameter encounter grazing protists compared to larger bacterial cells (~1µm) | Biosphere | 4 -6 | times left often | 115626 | Young KD. The selective... |
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... |
Data on DNA content, cell volume and minimum doubling time for twelve species of ciliates | Ciliate spp. | Table - link | N/A | 110493 | B. J. Shuter, J. E. Thomas... |
Length of bacterial cell filaments that can be grazed by mixotrophic nanoflagellate Ochromonas | Nanoflagellate Ochromonas spp. | ≤14 | µm | 115656 | Young KD. The selective... |
Mean DNA content by mass in protozoan cell | Eukaryotes | 3.2 | fg DNA/cell | 105853 | Dell'Anno A, Danovaro... |
Rumen temperature | Ruminants | 38 to 42 | ˚C | 112825 | Yokoyama MG, Johnson... |
Length of eukaryotic cilia | Frog Xenopus tropicalis | 6 (±1) | µm | 105112 | Neugebauer JM, Amack JD... |
Relative number and biomass of microbial species at 0–6 inches (0–15 cm) depth of soil | Various | Table - link | N/A | 106622 | James J. Hoorman & Rafiq... |
Number of species of known living organisms | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 105404 | J.J.R. Fraústo da Silva... |
Currently (as of 2011) catalogued and predicted total number of species on Earth and in the ocean | Biosphere | Table - link | species | 109317 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
Reconstructed sugar utilization pathways and newly assigned genes in Shewanella spp. | Bacteria Shewanella spp. | Table - link | N/A | 107281 | Rodionov DA et al., Genomic... |
Metabolic rates in prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes | Microbes | Table - link | N/A | 105785 | Makarieva AM, Gorshkov VG... |
Approximate composition of gas mixture in the rumen | Ruminants | CO2 65%: CH4 27%: N2 7%: O2 0.6%: H2 0.2%: H2S 0.01% | % | 112823 | Yokoyama MG, Johnson... |
Tangential velocity of swimming (fastest prokaryotic swimmer known) | Bacteria Thiovulum spp. | 150 – 600 | μm/sec | 110076 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
Fraction of total bacterial mortality in various aquatic ecosystems that phages are responsible for | Biosphere | 10 - 80 | % | 112500 | Letarov A, Kulikov E.... |
Number of human pathogens | Various | 1407 (538 bacteria: 317 fungi: 287 helminths: 208 viruses or prions: 57 protozoa) | Pathogenic species | 106626 | Mark Woolhouse, Sonya... |
Mean metabolic rates in prokaryotes | prokaryote | In rest 8: In growth 190 Table - link | W/kg | 105786 | Makarieva AM, Gorshkov VG... |
Number of species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 | Biosphere | ~1.2e6 | species | 109316 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |