Size of the Chloroplast Genome in Codium fragile.
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.
Hedberg
M F
MF
Huang
Y S
YS
Hommersand
M H
MH