Chromosome size and number can vary widely between closely related organisms. This poses a challenge for the evolutionary geneticists who are trying to make sense of genome structure, says Jonathan Knight.
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Knight, J. All genomes great and small. Nature 417, 374–376 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417374a
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