This discrepancy between genome size and complexity remains clear more than half a century later, with genome sizes now available for nearly 9,000 species of animals and plants. In prokaryotes ...
In addition to genes, the genome also contains large regions of DNA that do not code for proteins. This non-coding DNA, sometimes referred to as "junk DNA," has various functions, such as regulating ...
As shown in Table 1 (adapted from Van Straalen & Roelofs, 2006), there is no clear correspondence between genome size and number of protein-coding genes—another indication that the number of ...
New research suggests it is down to genome size - and small is better. "It really comes down to a question of cell size and how you can build a small cell and still retain all the attributes that ...