Evolutionary implications of the relationship between genome size and body size in flatworms and copepods.

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Genome and body sizes were measured in 38 species of turbellarian flatworms and 16 species of copepod crustaceans. Significant positive relationships existed between genome size and body size in both groups. The slopes of these regressions indicated that increases in cell volume are reinforced by increased cell numbers, or that cell volumes show positive allometric variation with genome size. Genome sizes appear...

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