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).
Doron Pinko
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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.
Cartaxana P, Sonia Cruz
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Euglenozoan kleptoplasty illuminates the early evolution of photoendosymbiosis [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Kleptoplasts are distinct among photosynthetic organelles in eukaryotes (i.e, plastids) because they are routinely sequestered from prey algal cells and function only temporarily in the new host cell.
Toshinobu Suzaki +2 more
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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.
Weber Apm, Mary E Rumpho
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A new case of kleptoplasty in animals: Marine flatworms steal functional plastids from diatoms [PDF]
Science Advances, 2019 Experimental, transcriptomic, and ultrastructural data show that flatworms steal and retain functional plastids from diatoms. To date, sea slugs have been considered the only animals known to sequester functional algal plastids into their own cells, via ...
Niels Van Steenkiste +2 more
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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.
Heike Wägele, Elise Laetz
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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
Paulo Cartaxana +5 more
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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 ...
Patrícia Martins +2 more
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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.
Heike Wägele +2 more
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Current Biology, 2023 Gregor Christa introduces kleptoplasty - the process by which heterotrophs steal chloroplasts from algae and incorporate them into their cytosol.
Gregor Christa
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