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Scatter plots showing the correlation between the length of the longest intron and the sum of the lengths of all other introns in the gene. Protein-coding genes in human (A), mouse (B), koala (C), chicken (D), zebrafish (E), fugu (F), nematode worm (G) and arabidopsis (H) were tested, with overall Spearman rs coefficients 0.8, 0.77, 0.79, 0.79, 0.77, 0.72, 0.76 and 0.33, respectively; the corresponding P values were less than 0.0001 in all cases
