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This is the best explanation I've ever seen for lungfish genome sizes
https://xkcd.com/3064/
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The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/