Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Foraminifera are highly diverse rhizarian protists, with some lineages having developed the ability to retain chloroplasts from algal prey (kleptoplasty).
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Kleptoplasty: Getting away with stolen chloroplasts. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2022 Kleptoplasty, the process by which a host organism sequesters and retains algal chloroplasts, is relatively common in protists. The origin of the plastid varies, as do the length of time it is retained in the host and the functionality of the association.
Sónia Cruz, Paulo Cartaxana
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How does temperature affect functional kleptoplasty? Comparing populations of the solar-powered sister-species Elysia timida Risso, 1818 and Elysia cornigera Nuttall, 1989 (Gastropoda: Sacoglossa) [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2018 Background Despite widespread interest in solar-powered sea slugs (Sacoglossa: Gastropoda), relatively little is know about how they actually perform functional kleptoplasty. Sister-taxa Elysia timida and E.
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Microbiome characterization of the sea slugs Elysia viridis and Placida dendritica: insights into potential roles in kleptoplasty [PDF]
BMC MicrobiologyBackground Kleptoplasty is the process by which functional chloroplasts from algae food sources are sequestered and retained by a host organism. Some sacoglossan sea slugs display this ability, enabling them to survive extended periods of food shortage ...
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Lipid accumulation during the establishment of kleptoplasty in Elysia chlorotica. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The establishment of kleptoplasty (retention of "stolen plastids") in the digestive tissue of the sacoglossan Elysia chlorotica Gould was investigated using transmission electron microscopy.
Karen N Pelletreau +3 more
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Chloroplast acquisition without the gene transfer in kleptoplastic sea slugs, Plakobranchus ocellatus [PDF]
eLife, 2021 Some sea slugs sequester chloroplasts from algal food in their intestinal cells and photosynthesize for months. This phenomenon, kleptoplasty, poses a question of how the chloroplast retains its activity without the algal nucleus. There have been debates
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Laboratory Rearing of the Photosynthetic Sea Slug Elysia crispata (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa): Implications for the Study of Kleptoplasty and Species Conservation [PDF]
BiologySome Sacoglossa sea slugs are capable of stealing and maintaining functional intracellular chloroplasts—kleptoplasts—from their macroalgal prey for periods of up to several months, a process known as kleptoplasty. Although the cultivation of these marine
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Chloroplast digestion and the development of functional kleptoplasty in juvenile Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) as compared to short-term and non-chloroplast-retaining sacoglossan slugs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Sacoglossan sea slugs are the only metazoans known to perform functional kleptoplasty, the sequestration and retention of functional chloroplasts within their digestive gland cells.
Elise Marie Jerschabek Laetz +1 more
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Pigment and Fatty Acid Heterogeneity in the Sea Slug Elysia crispata Is Not Shaped by Habitat Depth [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Long-term retention of functional chloroplasts in animal cells occurs only in sacoglossan sea slugs. Analysis of molecules related to the maintenance of these organelles can provide valuable information on this trait (kleptoplasty).
Xochitl Guadalupe Vital +6 more
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Aposymbiotic Specimen of the Photosynthetic Sea Slug Elysia crispata [PDF]
Diversity, 2022 Elysia crispata is a sacoglossan sea slug that retains intracellular, functional chloroplasts stolen from their macroalgal food sources. Elysia crispata juveniles start feeding on the algae following metamorphosis, engulfing chloroplasts and turning ...
Paulo Cartaxana +4 more
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