The C-value Paradox
An onion carries five times more DNA than you do. A single-celled amoeba carries a hundred times more. Nobody expected that.
1971 (named), 2001 (renamed the C-value enigma)17 min read
Evolutionary biology and genome biology
T. Ryan Gregory
1976
Canadian evolutionary biologist at the University of Guelph and curator of the Animal Genome Size Database. His 2001 review argued that the C-value puzzle should be renamed the C-value enigma, because the question is no longer why genome size varies at all but what causes and maintains the variation.