| Value |
5
unitless
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| Organism |
Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Reference |
C. elegans II. 2nd edition. Chapter 2 The Genome, Robert H Waterston, John E Sulston, and Alan R Coulson, Section I General Properties 2nd paragraph, link |
| Primary Source |
Coulson A R, Kozono Y, Lutterbach B, Shownkeen R, Sulston J, Waterston R. YACs and the C. elegans genome. BioEssays. 1991 13: 413–417.PubMed ID1953703
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| Comments |
"The nuclear genome contains approximately 100×10^6 base pairs, organized into six chromosomes ranging in size from 14×10^6 to 22×10^6 base pairs (primary source), which is approximately 20 times the size of Escherichia coli (the underestimate of the E. coli genome size, used as a standard, led to the underestimate of the C. elegans genome size by reassociation kinetics) and about 1/30 the size of the human genome." Males have one X hermaphrodites have two X |
| Entered by |
Ben Marks |
| ID |
101369 |