For a long time we failed to assemble a chloroplast genome in Boodlea. Now Andrea Del Cortona and Frederik Leliaert have finally established using long PacBio reads that the chloroplast genome is not a large circular molecule! An organellar genome that consist of small linear plasmids is unprecedented in eukaryotes and highlights unexpected diversity in organellar genome organisation.
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https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31449-5