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Partial sequence analyses of 16S ribosomal RNAs of blue-green algae and chloroplasts reveal that blue-green algae are typically prokaryotic and related to the bacilli, that red algal chloroplasts are probably of blue-green algal origin, and that euglenoid and red algal chloroplasts may have arisen independently.
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Bonen, L., Doolittle, W. Partial sequences of 16S rRNA and the phylogeny of blue-green algae and chloroplasts. Nature 261, 669–673 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261669a0
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