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==Genome size==
The genome size of a bdelloid rotifer, ''[[Adineta vaga]]'', was reported to be around 244 Mb.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Flot |first1=Jean-François |last2=Hespeels |first2=Boris |last3=Li |first3=Xiang |last4=Noel |first4=Benjamin |last5=Arkhipova |first5=Irina |last6=Danchin |first6=Etienne G. J. |last7=Hejnol |first7=Andreas |last8=Henrissat |first8=Bernard |last9=Koszul |first9=Romain |last10=Aury |first10=Jean-Marc |last11=Barbe |first11=Valérie |last12=Barthélémy |first12=Roxane-Marie |last13=Bast |first13=Jens |last14=Bazykin |first14=Georgii A. |last15=Chabrol |first15=Olivier |last16=Couloux |first16=Arnaud |last17=Da Rocha |first17=Martine |last18=Da Silva |first18=Corinne |last19=Gladyshev |first19=Eugene |last20=Gouret |first20=Philippe |last21=Hallatschek |first21=Oskar |last22=Hecox-Lea |first22=Bette |last23=Labadie |first23=Karine |last24=Lejeune |first24=Benjamin |last25=Piskurek |first25=Oliver |last26=Poulain |first26=Julie |last27=Rodriguez |first27=Fernando |last28=Ryan |first28=Joseph F. |last29=Vakhrusheva |first29=Olga A. |last30=Wajnberg |first30=Eric |last31=Wirth |first31=Bénédicte |last32=Yushenova |first32=Irina |last33=Kellis |first33=Manolis |last34=Kondrashov |first34=Alexey S. |last35=Mark Welch |first35=David B. |last36=Pontarotti |first36=Pierre |last37=Weissenbach |first37=Jean |last38=Wincker |first38=Patrick |last39=Jaillon |first39=Olivier |last40=Van Doninck |first40=Karine |title=Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga |journal=Nature |date=August 2013 |volume=500 |issue=7463 |pages=453–457 |doi=10.1038/nature12326 |pmid=23873043 |bibcode=2013Natur.500..453F |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01282538/document |doi-access=free |hdl=1721.1/87072 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> The genomes of Monogononts seem to be significantly smaller than those of Bdelloids. In Monogononta the nuclear DNA content (2C) in eight different species of four different genera ranged almost fourfold, from 0.12 to 0.46 pg.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stelzer |first1=Claus-Peter |title=A first assessment of genome size diversity in Monogonont rotifers |journal=Hydrobiologia |date=1 March 2011 |volume=662 |issue=1 |pages=77–82 |doi=10.1007/s10750-010-0487-1 |pmid=34764494 |pmc=7611972 |bibcode=2011HyBio.662...77S }}</ref> Haploid "1C" genome sizes in ''[[Brachionus]]'' species range at least from 0.056 to 0.416 pg.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stelzer |first1=Claus-Peter |last2=Riss |first2=Simone |last3=Stadler |first3=Peter |title=Genome size evolution at the speciation level: The cryptic species complex Brachionus plicatilis(Rotifera) |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |date=7 April 2011 |volume=11 |issue=1 |page=90 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-11-90 |pmid=21473744 |pmc=3087684 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2011BMCEE..11...90S }}</ref>