| Literature DB >> 17760191 |
M F Hedberg, Y S Huang, M H Hommersand.
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.Entities:
Year: 1981 PMID: 17760191 DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4506.445
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728