... determined by the genomesize, the number of protein-coding genes, the number ofintrons, or the total number of genomic transcripts. Rather,we should assess these parameters all together, and estimatehow ... C. elegans (0.10 pg), and P. dumerilii (0.89 pg). There are, however, many exceptionsto the correlation between an organism’s morphological and functional complexity and the absolute size of ... gene struc-tures. Despite the fact that marine annelids and humanshave the same number of introns, commonly in the samepositions, the importance of these introns for the host cellscould be different....