The C. reinhardtii wild-type laboratory strain c137 (mt+) originates from an isolate made near Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1945 by Gilbert M. Smith.
Although plastids are prokaryotic descendants and still have their prokaryotic translational machinery, SD-like sequences are not required in green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts.
Chlamydomonas | Schematic representation of a ''Chlamydomonas | Longitudinal section through the flagella area in ''Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |