Identification of scavenger receptors and thrombospondin‐type‐1 repeat proteins potentially relevant for plastid recognition in Sacoglossa [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Functional kleptoplasty is a photosymbiotic relationship, in which photosynthetically active chloroplasts serve as an intracellular symbiont for a heterotrophic host.
Jenny Melo Clavijo +6 more
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Trophic strategies of intertidal foraminifera explored with single‐cell microbiome metabarcoding and morphological methods: What is on the menu? [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In mudflats, interactions and transfers of nutrients and secondary metabolites may drive ecosystems and biodiversity. Foraminifera have complex trophic strategies as they often rely on bacteria and eukaryotes or on potential symbionts for carbon and ...
Magali Schweizer +5 more
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Euglenozoan kleptoplasty illuminates the early evolution of photoendosymbiosis. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Kleptoplasts (kP) 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. Therefore, the hosts of kleptoplasts benefit from photosynthesis without constitutive photoendosymbiosis.
Karnkowska A +8 more
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A new case of kleptoplasty in animals: Marine flatworms steal functional plastids from diatoms. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2019 Experimental, transcriptomic, and ultrastructural data show that flatworms steal and retain functional plastids from diatoms.
Van Steenkiste NWL +5 more
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Food shaped photosynthesis: Photophysiology of the sea slug Elysia viridis fed with two alternative chloroplast donors [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Open Research Europe, 2023 Background Some Sacoglossa sea slugs steal and integrate chloroplasts derived from the algae they feed on into their cells where they continue to function photosynthetically, a process termed kleptoplasty.
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Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2009 Background Among metazoans, retention of functional diet-derived chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) is known only from the sea slug taxon Sacoglossa (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Intracellular maintenance of plastids in the slug's digestive epithelium has long
Krug Patrick J +3 more
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Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of the Mucus of the Tropical Sea Slug Elysia crispata [PDF]
MoleculesElysia crispata (Sacoglossa, Gastropoda) is a tropical sea slug known for its ability to incorporate functional chloroplasts from a variety of green macroalgae, a phenomenon termed kleptoplasty. This sea slug, amenable to laboratory cultivation, produces
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Sea Slug Mucus Production Is Supported by Photosynthesis of Stolen Chloroplasts [PDF]
Biology, 2022 A handful of sea slugs of the order Sacoglossa are able to steal chloroplasts—kleptoplasts—from their algal food sources and maintain them functionally for periods ranging from several weeks to a few months.
Diana Lopes +6 more
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Prey species and abundance affect growth and photosynthetic performance of the polyphagous sea slug Elysia crispata [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Some sacoglossan sea slugs steal functional macroalgal chloroplasts (kleptoplasts). In this study, we investigated the effects of algal prey species and abundance on the growth and photosynthetic capacity of the tropical polyphagous sea slug Elysia ...
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A sea slug’s guide to plastid symbiosis [PDF]
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014 Some 140 years ago sea slugs that contained chlorophyll-pigmented granules similar to those of plants were described. While we now understand that these “green granules” are plastids the slugs sequester from siphonaceous algae upon which they feed ...
Jan de Vries +3 more
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