The broad-winged cricket (Bryodemella tuberculata) is one of the rarest species to actually disappear, except for a small number of populations along the riverbanks of the Alps.
Perhaps adaptation to changing environmental conditions contributed to genetic diversity and led to the exceptional size of the genome, the scientists suggest. “We see that the size of the genome is not necessarily related to the complexity of the organism.”.
However, scientists cannot give a definite answer as to where such a large genome came from. Most insects have a much smaller genome. Therefore, the fruit fly genome makes up no more than one-sixth of the human genome.
Source: Ferra
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