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An ORF potentially encoding a 6.5 kDa hydrophobic protein in chloroplasts is also present in the cyanellar genome of Cyanophora paradoxa

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Evrard, JL., Weil, JH. & Kuntz, M. An ORF potentially encoding a 6.5 kDa hydrophobic protein in chloroplasts is also present in the cyanellar genome of Cyanophora paradoxa . Plant Mol Biol 15, 779–781 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00016127

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