Increased prey choice is associated with higher kleptoplastidic reliance in Mesodinium ciliates. [PDF]
J PhycolKleptoplastidic organisms display varying levels of reliance on stolen plastids, with some lineages evolving complex strategies for plastid (and other organelle) integration into metabolism.
L'Etoile-Goga A, Moeller HV.
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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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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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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
Taro Maeda +16 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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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
Diana Lopes +7 more
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Kleptoplasty does not promote major shifts in the lipidome of macroalgal chloroplasts sequestered by the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia viridis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Sacoglossan sea slugs, also known as crawling leaves due to their photosynthetic activity, are highly selective feeders that incorporate chloroplasts from specific macroalgae.
Felisa Rey +8 more
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Short-term retention of kleptoplasty from a green alga (Bryopsis) in the sea slug Placida sp. YS001
Biologia (Poland), 2014 The capacity of sea slugs (sacoglossans) for retaining chloroplasts from food algae provides important insights into endosymbiotic relationships and kleptoplasty. A sea slug species was captured accidentally in the Yellow Sea and identified as Placida sp.
Xiaowen Zhang, Yitao Wang, Dong Xu
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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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Kleptoplasty Relies on a Host-Derived Component in the Euglenid Protist, Rapaza viridis
Plant and Cell Physiology, 2023 Yoshinori Tsuji
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