Genome size and phenotypic change: insights on contemporary evolution across biological groups.

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Environmental changes threaten the persistence of wild populations and can drive adaptive phenotypic changes. However, predicting the phenotypic outcome of an environmental change based on features of the species remains challenging. Genome size has been linked to variables that could influence the amount and rate of phenotypic change on contemporary time-scales. Two contrasting hypotheses have been proposed. The...

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