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Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) is the continent's only true insect, and has the smallest genome (www.livescience.com)

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

That's really interesting. At first I thought it was a big coincidence that a single insect would hold two records (only insect native to antartica and smallest genome). But it turns out that these two are strongly related events.

I see the article is from 2014, so there must be some additional work on the genome of other extremophiles by now.