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Analysis of a plastid gene cluster reveals a close relationship betweenCyanidioschyzon andCyanidium

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Cyanidioschyzon merolae andCyanidium caldarium are representative species among of the most primitive algae, although the two species are distinctly different in various morphological traits. We determined the nucleotide sequence of therbcL gene and a flanking 8-kb region in the plastid genome of each of these algae. In both algae, 12 genes were identified in this region, in an identical order. This gene order is not conserved in the plastid genomes of other species of the kingdom Plantae that have been sequenced to data. An additional unidentified open reading frame was also found in the two algae that we analyzed, which has not been described in any other species of algae includingPorphyra purpurea. Comparison of the amino acid sequences of selected genes also supported the conclusion thatCyanidioschyzon merolae andCyanidium caldarium are closely related and that they are distinct from other rhodophytes.

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  1. School of Human Science, Waseda University, 359, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

    Niji Ohta

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Saltama University, 338, Urawa, Saitama, Japan

    Naoki Sato

  3. Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University, 920-11, Kakumacho, Kanazawa, Japan

    Kunihiko Ueda

  4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Graduate school of University of Tokyo, 113, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

    Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper will appear in the DDBJ, EMBL and GenBank Nucleotide Sequence Databases under the accession numbers D63675 and D63676.

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Ohta, N., Sato, N., Ueda, K. et al. Analysis of a plastid gene cluster reveals a close relationship betweenCyanidioschyzon andCyanidium . J. Plant Res. 110, 235–245 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02509312

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