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| Title |
Is There an Upper Limit to Genome Size?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Trends in Plant Science, May 2017
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.04.005 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Oriane Hidalgo, Jaume Pellicer, Maarten Christenhusz, Harald Schneider, Andrew R. Leitch, Ilia J. Leitch |
| Abstract |
At 50-fold the size of the human genome (3 Gb), the staggeringly huge genome of 147.3 Gb recently discovered in the fern Tmesipteris obliqua is comparable in size to those of the other plant and animal record-holders (i.e., Paris japonica, a flowering plant with a genome size of 148.8 Gb, and Protopterus aethiopicus, a lungfish with a genome of 130 Gb). The synthesis of available information on giant genomes suggests that the biological limit to genome size expansion in eukaryotes may have been reached. We propose several explanations for why the genomes of ferns, flowering plants, and lungfish, all of which have independently undergone dramatic increases in genome size through a variety of mechanisms, do not exceed 150 Gb. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 177 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 32 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 7% |
| Canada | 10 | 6% |
| Germany | 8 | 5% |
| Sweden | 7 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 5 | 3% |
| Australia | 4 | 2% |
| Brazil | 3 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 26 | 15% |
| Unknown | 66 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 91 | 51% |
| Members of the public | 80 | 45% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 2% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 261 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 254 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 64 | 25% |
| Researcher | 42 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 31 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 11% |
| Professor | 14 | 5% |
| Other | 33 | 13% |
| Unknown | 47 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 119 | 46% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 63 | 24% |
| Environmental Science | 7 | 3% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 2% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 15 | 6% |
| Unknown | 50 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 115. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 September 2022.
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