More Junk DNA junk from the DI

[davecarlson]

@scd

“our analysis is focused on haploid genome composition, thus removing the confounding factor of ploidy or the contaminating DNA of prey, which are likely to be the primary cause of the large genome sizes attributed to lungfish and amoeba, respectively”

Lungfish have not experienced a recent whole genome duplication but do have lots of active transposable elements. In any case, their haploid genome size is still much larger than ours. See the following paper for details:

The Lungfish Transcriptome: A Glimpse into Molecular Evolution Events at the Transition from Water to Land