{
  "name": "Paramecium sizes: published lengths and one scale-bar measurement",
  "desc": "Published lengths of Paramecium caudatum and of the genus, one row per source, a cilium's length and thickness, and one cell length computed for this page from a printed scale bar",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Ants, Cells & Atoms",
  "url": "https://antscellsandatoms.com/microscopic-life/paramecium/",
  "from": [
    "values typed from the sources in data_credit",
    "pixel lengths read from media/paramecium-caudatum-phase-contrast.jpg (scale bar 875 px; cell 1727–1752 px)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Ants, Cells & Atoms from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Velho Rodrigues MF, Lisicki M, Lauga E 2021, PLOS ONE 16(6):e0252291, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252291, retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Lisicki M, Velho Rodrigues MF, Goldstein RE, Lauga E 2019, eLife 8:e44907, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44907, retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Brette R 2021, eNeuro 8(3):ENEURO.0018-21.2021, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0018-21.2021, retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Long H et al. 2023, Annual Review of Genetics 57:391–410 (author manuscript), CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genet-071819-104035, retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Scale-bar measurement: Josef Reischig, Paramecium caudatum (248 06) Native preparation, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paramecium_caudatum_(248_06)_Native_preparation.jpg; length computed 2026-10-24",
    "GBIF Secretariat 2023, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, Paramecium caudatum (taxon key 8122199) and Ciliophora (7765738), checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-24"
  ]
}