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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated number of species | Insect | 5,000,000 - 6,000,000 | species | 113444 | Pimm SL et al., The ... |
| Divergence time of S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus | Yeast | ~5 - 10 | Mya | 113705 | Dori-Bachash M, Shema E... |
| Cellular Cu budget | Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 5.2e+5 | atoms/cell | 108833 | Finney LA, O'Halloran... |
| Number of K and Mg atoms per cell (each) | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 1e+8 | atoms/cell | 108824 | Finney LA, O'Halloran... |
| Number of extant species | Crustacea | >52,000 | species | 117178 | Thomas W. Cronin & Megan... |
| Number of times obligate interspecific brood parasitism arose independently during evolution | Birds | 7 | times | 117277 | Stevens M. Bird brood... |
| Fraction of scleractinian corals, amphibians, birds and mammals that are classified as 'threatned' as of 2011 | Metazoa animals | 20 - 43 | % | 112755 | Barnosky AD et al., Has... |
| Number of eukaryotic species in ocean | Biosphere | ~200,000 | species | 112669 | Andersen KH et al., ... |
| Divergence rate for protein coding mitochondrial DNA in subfossil bones | Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae | 0.95 | substitutions/site/Myr | 113219 | Peterson GI, Masel J.... |
| Date of fossil | Eukaryotic fossil acritarch Tappania plana | ~1,500 | MYA | 113025 | Javaux EJ, Knoll AH,... |
| Number of described species of beetles (Coleoptera, the most species-rich group of organisms on Earth) | Insect | ~360,000 | described species | 113121 | Bouchard P et al., F... |
| Evolutionary rate is faster in RNA viruses compared to DNA viruses by | Virus | 2-3 orders of magnitude | faster in RNA viruses compared to DNA viruses | 113163 | Brandes N, Linial M.... |
| Fraction of known animal species that are beetles | Biosphere | nearly 25 | % of all described species | 113119 | Hunt T et al., A com... |
| Conquest of dry land by vertebrate animals (the evolution of the first four-legged, amphibious animals) & origin of amniotes | vertebrates | conquest of dry land ~360Mya: origin of amniotes ~310Mya | Mya | 113179 | Sander PM. Paleontology.... |
| Time when archaeal & eubacterial genes appeared in eukarya | Eukaryotes | archaeal genes ~2,300: eubacterial genes 2,100 | Mya | 113206 | Emelyanov VV. Mitochondrial... |
| Date of divergence of bacteria Rickettsiaceae and mitochondria | Mitochondria | 1780 (±170) | Mya | 113207 | Emelyanov VV. Mitochondrial... |
| Appearance of red algae & microfossils that are probably eukaryotic | Eukaryotes | red algae ~1.2: eukaryotic microfossils 1.8 | Ga | 113583 | Olivia P. Judson, The... |
| Appearance of armoured algae | Algae | ~770 | Mya | 113584 | Olivia P. Judson, The... |
| Number of nuclei between cephalic space and excretory pore in microfilariae | Nematode Wuchereria bancrofti | 141 | Unitless | 105865 | Schacher JF, Geddawi... |
| Number of Ca, Zn and Fe atoms per cell (each) | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 100000 (~0.1mM) | atoms/cell | 108825 | Finney LA, O'Halloran... |