Stephen Colbert’s Trapdoor Spider Has a Genome Bigger Than Ours—and 77% Is Repetition
A quarter-sized trapdoor spider named for Stephen Colbert has an estimated 4.6-billion-base-pair genome. The surprise is what fills it—and why that matters.
A quarter-sized trapdoor spider named for Stephen Colbert has an estimated 4.6-billion-base-pair genome. The surprise is what fills it—and why that matters.