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Digests: Salamanders’ slow slither into genomic gigantism *
Author(s) -
Dodsworth Steven,
Guignard Maïté S.,
Hidalgo Oriane,
Leitch Ilia J.,
Pellicer Jaume
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13112
Subject(s) - biology , gigantism , evolutionary biology , zoology , genetics
Genome size varies enormously across the eukaryotic tree of life (c. 66,000-fold), with the largest reported nuclear genomes found in vertebrates (e.g. salamanders, lungfish) and angiosperms (e.g. mistletoe, fritillaries). Yet despite this huge diversity, most genomes are considerably smaller than the largest reported (c. 150 Gb), with the mean size of both vertebrate and plant genomes being similar, c. 5 Gb. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved