Resume de l’article : Cet étrange poisson avec des poumons bat le record du plus grand génome animal de la Terre

Question: What is the animal with the largest genome on Earth?

Answer: The animal with the largest genome on Earth is the ghost poacher (Polyprion oxygeneios), which has a genome size of 130 billion base pairs. This is nearly twice as large as the previous record holder, the marbled lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus). The discovery of the ghost poacher’s large genome was published in a study in the journal Nature in 2022.