grswld at unity.ncsu.edu (Charles M Griswold) writes:
>One word: DNAmass.
>Mike
there's something to this
but it does not account for the poyploidy seen in some plants (eg Lillies)
nor the highly repetitive sequences or selfish transposons common
in metazoans. Raw DNA mass may reflect only a lack of strong enough
selection to take out the garbage. ;^).
That's why I initially suggested the species' total sequence complexity
as a possible first order correction.
robin
