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Electron Microscopic Evidence for Chloroplast Fusion in Zygotes of Chlamydomonos reinhardii

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In Chlamydomonas reinhardii zygotes the two chloroplasts contributed by the two gametes fuse, as do nuclei, to form a single zygotic chloroplast; this would enable non-Mendelian genes residing in the chloroplast to undergo recombination.

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CAVALIER-SMITH, T. Electron Microscopic Evidence for Chloroplast Fusion in Zygotes of Chlamydomonos reinhardii. Nature 228, 333–335 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228333a0

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