Caecilian Genomes Reveal the Molecular Basis of Adaptation and Convergent Evolution of Limblessness in Snakes and Caecilians

November 27, 2023

Amphibians are famous (or perhaps infamous) for their enormous genomes. In fact, some salamanders have genomes of up to 120 billion base pairs (120 GB) and, by comparison, the human genome takes up only 3 GB. Because large genomes are difficult to sequence, scientists have been slow to generate…