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The World's Largest Animal Genome Belongs to an Odd, Air-Breathing Fish
The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) has the largest known genome of the animal kingdom at 91 billion base pairs of DNA. Katherine Seghers, Louisiana State University Scientists have sequenced the largest animal genome to dateāand it belongs …