The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga <it>Oltmannsiellopsis viridis </it>reveals a distinctive quadripartite architecture in the chloroplast genome of early diverging ulvophytes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The phylum Chlorophyta contains the majority of the green algae and is divided into four classes. The basal position of the Prasinophyceae has been well documented, but the divergence order of the Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae and Ch...

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Main Authors: Lemieux Claude, Pombert Jean-François, Turmel Monique
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-02-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/4/3