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From: John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Largest animal genome 91 billion base-pairs.
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On 8/22/24 2:18 PM, Ernest Major wrote:
> On 22/08/2024 20:36, John Harshman wrote:
>>> Are there some other organisms that have really long genomes
>>> besides some lobe finned fish and some lungfish and some frogs?
>>
>> Well, ferns are famous.
> 
> If science hasn't moved on the current record holder is a fern 
> (Tmesipteris oblanceolata). Paris japonica (a petaloid monocot) also 
> beats lungfish.
> 
And there are protists that beat them all.