Funktionale Kleptoplastie in Meeresnacktschnecken [PDF]
, 2023 Einige der 500 bekannten Sacoglossa-Arten können in ihrem eigenen Cytosol Chloroplasten photosynthetisch aktiv halten. Dieses als funktionale Kleptoplastie bezeichnete Phänomen ist eine spezielle Form der Photosymbiose und kommt in Tieren nur in Sacoglossa vor.
Kodžoman, Katarina +3 more
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Acquired phototrophy through retention of functional chloroplasts increases growth efficiency of the sea slug Elysia viridis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Photosynthesis is a fundamental process sustaining heterotrophic organisms at all trophic levels. Some mixotrophs can retain functional chloroplasts from food (kleptoplasty), and it is hypothesized that carbon acquired through kleptoplasty may enhance ...
Finn A Baumgartner +2 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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Sea Slug Kleptoplasty and Plastid Maintenance in a Metazoan1[W] [PDF]
Plant Physiology, 2011 [Trench (1969)][1] was the first to characterize the kleptoplastic (i.e. “stolen plastid”) relationship between the sacoglossan mollusc Elysia chlorotica and its algal prey ( Vaucheria litorea ). In contrast to E.
K. Pelletreau +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.
Luca Morelli +2 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 ...
Paulo Cartaxana +5 more
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Kleptoplasty in Dinophysis spp : Ecological role and evolutionary implications [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis deals with the question of whether planktonic protits of the genus Dinophysis have permanent plastids (=chloroplasts) or practice kleptoplasty, i.e. acquire plastids via predation on other microorganisms. Sequencing the plastid 16S rDNA of Dinophysis spp.
Minnhagen, Susanna
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Effect of light on photosynthetic efficiency of sequestered chloroplasts in intertidal benthic foraminifera (Haynesina germanica and Ammonia tepida) [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2016 Some benthic foraminifera have the ability to incorporate functional chloroplasts from diatoms (kleptoplasty). Our objective was to investigate chloroplast functionality of two benthic foraminifera (Haynesina germanica and Ammonia tepida) exposed to ...
T. Jauffrais +5 more
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Nitrate Assimilation Underlying Kleptoplasty
bioRxiv, 2022 Abstract While photoautotrophic organisms utilize inorganic nitrogen as the nitrogen source, heterotrophic organisms utilize organic nitrogen and thus do not generally have an inorganic nitrogen assimilation pathway. Here we focused on the nitrogen metabolism of Rapaza viridis , a ...
M. Maruyama +7 more
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Chemical defenses in Sacoglossan Opisthobranchs: Taxonomic trends and evolutionary implications [PDF]
Scientia Marina, 2004 Sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) are one of the few groups of specialist herbivores in the marine environment. Sacoglossans feed suctorially on the cell sap of macroalgae, from which they "steal" chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) and deterrent
Arnaldo Marín, Joandomènec Ros
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