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Evolution: In Chloroplast Genomes, Anything Goes.
Curr Biol. 2017 12 18;27(24):R1305-R1307
Authors: Smith DR
Abstract
A new study shows that Cladophorales green algae have the most unconventional chloroplast DNAs ever observed, whereby genes are located on small linear single-stranded palindromic elements. This puzzling architecture has parallels with mini-circular chloroplast genomes of dinoflagellates and raises many questions about how it arose and is maintained.
PMID: 29257961 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]