Comprising 91 billion bases, it is approximately 30 times larger than the human genome but contains no more genes, roughly 20,000. The majority of this genome is made up of non-coding DNA ...

The human genome is also an interesting point of comparison in that our genome has roughly 20,000 protein-coding genes. And these fish, with up to 30 times as much DNA... also have about 20,000 ...

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of a South American freshwater fish, Lepidosiren paradoxa, revealing that it possesses the largest animal genome ever discovered.