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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On Being the Right Size as an Animal with Plastids [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 Plastids typically reside in plant or algal cells—with one notable exception. There is one group of multicellular animals, sea slugs in the order Sacoglossa, members of which feed on siphonaceous algae.
Cessa Rauch +5 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 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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Outstanding issues in the study of antipredator defenses. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Although the main forms of antipredator defenses in animals are well defined, there are still many examples of overlapping mechanisms and others that do not fall neatly into pre‐existing categories. In our review, we systematically discuss these problems and suggest ways of improving underlying terminological and definitional problems.
Huang Y, Caro T.
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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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Algivore or phototroph? Plakobranchus ocellatus (Gastropoda) continuously acquires kleptoplasts and nutrition from multiple algal species in nature. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The sea slug Plakobranchus ocellatus (Sacoglossa, Gastropoda) retains photosynthetically active chloroplasts from ingested algae (functional kleptoplasts) in the epithelial cells of its digestive gland for up to 10 months.
Taro Maeda +12 more
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Terpenoids in Marine Heterobranch Molluscs [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2020 Heterobranch molluscs are rich in natural products. As other marine organisms, these gastropods are still quite unexplored, but they provide a stunning arsenal of compounds with interesting activities.
Conxita Avila
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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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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) [PDF]
BMC GenomicsBackground Sequencing and annotating genomes of non-model organisms helps to understand genome architecture, the genetic processes underlying species traits, and how these genes have evolved in closely-related taxa, among many other biological processes.
Lisa Männer +9 more
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