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The Importance of the Phytoplankton “Middle Class” to Ocean Net Community Production
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Volume 34, Issue 12, December 2020., 2020 Abstract The net balance between photosynthesis and respiration in the surface ocean is a key regulator of ocean‐atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) partitioning, and by extension, Earth's climate. The slight excess of photosynthesis over community respiration in sunlit waters, known as net community production (NCP), sets the upper bound on the ...
Lauren W. Juranek +8 more
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Bacterial diversity in the clarki ecotype of the photosynthetic sacoglossan, Elysia crispata
MicrobiologyOpen, Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2020., 2020 The bacterial diversity of the solar‐powered sea slug, Elysia crispata (clarki ecotype), was investigated. The results showed inter‐individual variability in bacterial diversity, suggesting that the bacteria live commensally with these sea slugs. Abstract Few studies have examined the bacterial communities associated with photosynthetic sacoglossan sea
Padmanabhan Mahadevan +1 more
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On the art of stealing chloroplasts
eLife, 2020 Sea slugs increase the longevity of the chloroplasts they steal from algae by limiting the harmful side-effects of photosynthesis.
Paulo Cartaxana, Sónia Cruz
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eLife, 2020 Sacoglossan sea slugs are able to maintain functional chloroplasts inside their own cells, and mechanisms that allow preservation of the chloroplasts are unknown.
Vesa Havurinne, Esa Tyystjärvi
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2017 We present the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Plakobranchus cf. ocellatus (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa), a so-called ‘solar-powered’ sea slug with long-term retention of chloroplasts.
Carola Greve +5 more
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A sea slug’s guide to plastid symbiosis
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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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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Bioluminescence of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Polykrikos kofoidii Chatton 1914 (Dinophyceae)
Journal of Phycology, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 666-688, April 2026.Abstract Heterotrophic dinoflagellates are important predators of phytoplankton, and many species produce bioluminescence, which is thought to serve as an antipredator function. The present study investigated the bioluminescence of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Polykrikos kofoidii, an important predator of toxic and bloom‐forming dinoflagellates ...
Michael I. Latz +2 more
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BiomoleculesCertain sacoglossan sea slugs, often known as “solar-powered sea slugs”, are a group of marine gastropods that have the unique ability to photosynthesize by stealing functional chloroplasts from algae.
Jada L. Brown +2 more
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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Volume 73, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Dinoflagellates and ciliates are important grazers of primary production in the Northeast Pacific but knowledge of their taxonomic composition and depth‐distribution is limited. These organisms also display a variety of heterotrophic feeding modes including heterotrophy, mixotrophy, and parasitism.
Erin L. Jones +5 more
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