Octopus Genome Decoded: Scientists Reveal Chromosome-Level Map of Common Octopus DNA

To gain a deeper understanding of octopuses biology and evolutionary history, validated data on the composition of their genome is needed, which has been lacking until now. Scientists from the University of Vienna together with an international research team have now been able to close this gap and, in a study, determined impressive figures: 2.8 billion base pairs—organized in 30 chromosomes.