Size of the Chloroplast Genome in Codium Fragile

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Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 1981 Jul 24

PMID 17760191

Citations 11

Authors

M F Hedberg

Y S Huang

M H Hommersand

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Abstract

Chloroplasts isolated from the siphonous green alga Codium fragile yield circular DNA molecules averaging 27.3 micrometers in length and 56 x 10(6) 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.

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