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From: Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Largest animal genome 91 billion base-pairs.
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:18:28 +0100
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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.

-- 
alias Ernest Major