Results
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Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
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Fraction of amino acid substitutions that lead to protein inactivation | Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 20 - 65 | % | 113375 | Drummond DA, Bloom JD... |
Divergence time of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S. paradoxus | Yeast | ≈5 | Mya | 113373 | Drummond DA, Bloom JD... |
Major radiation of conifer families | Plants | 250 - 65 | Mya | 113643 | Nystedt B et al., The... |
Number of species of conifers | Plants | ~630 species: representing ~70 currently recognized genera | N/A | 113644 | Nystedt B et al., The... |
Current (sixth, or anthropocene) extinction rates compared to natural background rates of extinction | Biosphere | current 1,000: future likely to be 10,000 | times higher than background extinction rate | 117272 | Khan S et al., Overview... |
Time when land plants first began to diverge | Plants | ~450-460 | Mya | 110277 | Dr. Ilia J. Leitch, Prof.... |
Time of radiation across the North American continent from a European ancestor | Butterfly Limenitis spp. | during the past 3 - 4 | million years | 117176 | Frentiu FD, Briscoe AD.... |
Time period over which birds and butterflies have evolved | Metazoa animals | birds ~160: butterflies >140 | million years ago | 117177 | Frentiu FD, Briscoe AD.... |
Fraction of the four billion species estimated to have evolved on the Earth over the last 3.5 billion years that are extinct | Biosphere | ~99 | % | 112752 | Barnosky AD et al., Has... |
Time that a recognized taxa in the fossil record lives | Generic | 1 - 10 | million years | 112640 | De Vos JM, Joppa LN,... |
Divergence rate for protein coding mitochondrial DNA in mammals and birds | vertebrates | 0.02 | substitutions/site/Myr | 113217 | Peterson GI, Masel J.... |
Divergence rate for protein coding mitochondrial DNA | Human Homo sapiens | 0.32 - 2.5 | substitutions/site/Myr | 113218 | Peterson GI, Masel J.... |
Date of whole genome duplication event in hemiascomycetes | Yeast | ~100 | Mya | 113383 | Vlastaridis P et al.... |
Origin of mammals and dinosaurs | vertebrates | 210 - 230 | Mya | 113318 | Smith et al., Body size... |
Wingspan of Meganeura spp., extinct flying insects ~3 times the size of the largest flying insects today | Insect | >65 - 71 | cm | 113319 | Smith et al., Body size... |
Span of insect evolutionary history | Insect | 300 | million years | 113320 | Smith et al., Body size... |
Origin of microscopic cyanobacteria-like organisms and their biovolume | Cyanobacteria | evolved by ∼3,500 - 3,400Mya: biovolume of ∼3.4×10^−6mm^3 | N/A | 113316 | Smith et al., Body size... |
Span of Geozoic (since life first appeared till present day) | Biosphere | ~3,600 | Mya | 113312 | Smith et al., Body size... |
Estimated number of species of land plants | Biosphere | >450,000 | species | 113442 | Pimm SL et al., The ... |
Number of described and undescribed animal species | Biosphere | described ~1,900,000: undescribed 11,000,000 | species | 113443 | Pimm SL et al., The ... |