PhoenixSerenity<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/largest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>largest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genome</span></a> of any insect, seven times the size of the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HumanGenome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGenome</span></a>, was recently <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/discovered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discovered</span></a> in a grasshopper. In a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/study" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>study</span></a> published in <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PLOSONE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSONE</span></a>, researchers from the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GermanLeibnizInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GermanLeibnizInstitute</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> Change & <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CzechAcademyOfSciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CzechAcademyOfSciences</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/prove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prove</span></a> wrong the idea of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insect</span></a> genomes being comparatively small/less complex.</p><p>Speckled buzzing <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/grasshopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grasshopper</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/BryodemellaTuberculata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BryodemellaTuberculata</span></a> ).</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-giant-insect-genome.amp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2023-03-scientis</span><span class="invisible">ts-giant-insect-genome.amp</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Entomology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NewDiscovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewDiscovery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/biological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biological</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a></p>