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Stock Center (P40-OD019794) are funded by the Office 
of the Director at
 the National Institutes of Health.

                                           

Fun Facts

Why is the axolotl genome so large?

As a group, salamanders have larger genomes than the other amphibians.

It doesn’t appear that the axolotl has more genes than other vertebrates (Smith et al., 2009).

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