Figure 1From: Billions of basepairs of recently expanded, repetitive sequences are eliminated from the somatic genome during copepod developmentFeulgen-stained nuclei of M. edax after and before chromatin diminution. A. Somatic cell nuclei in antennal segments contain ~3 Gb DNA. B. Whole anaphase figure during germline cell division. Germline genome in prediminuted embryo contains ~30 Gb DNA.Back to article page