Size of the Chloroplast Genome in Codium fragile
- 24 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 213 (4506), 445-447
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.213.4506.445
Abstract
Chloroplasts isolated from the siphonous green alga Codium fragile yield circular DNA molecules averaging 27.3 micrometers in length and 56 x 106 daltons in molecular size. This chloroplast genome is 25 to 30 percent smaller than any reported. The small size of the Codium chloroplast genome may represent a primitive evolutionary condition in green plants.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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