In some types of unicellular algae, the chloroplasts have their own nucleus — a legacy of the time when the chloroplast was a free-living cell. The sequence of the genome in one such nucleus is now revealed.
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Gilson, P., McFadden, G. A grin without a cat. Nature 410, 1040–1041 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35074233
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