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Loss of state transitions in Bryopsidales macroalgae and kleptoplastic sea slugs (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa) [PDF]

Communications Biology
Green macroalgae within the order Bryopsidales lack the fundamental photoprotective mechanisms of green algae, the xanthophyll cycle and energy-dependent dissipation of excess light.
Vesa Havurinne, Axelle Rivoallan, Heta Mattila, Esa Tyystjärvi, Paulo Cartaxana, Sónia Cruz   +5 more
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From sea to land and beyond – New insights into the evolution of euthyneuran Gastropoda (Mollusca) [PDF]

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008
Background The Euthyneura are considered to be the most successful and diverse group of Gastropoda. Phylogenetically, they are riven with controversy.
Streit Bruno, Kuhn Kerstin, Dinapoli Angela, Klussmann-Kolb Annette, Albrecht Christian   +4 more
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Microbiome characterization of the sea slugs Elysia viridis and Placida dendritica: insights into potential roles in kleptoplasty [PDF]

BMC Microbiology
Background Kleptoplasty is the process by which functional chloroplasts from algae food sources are sequestered and retained by a host organism. Some sacoglossan sea slugs display this ability, enabling them to survive extended periods of food shortage ...
Patrícia Martins, Paulo Cartaxana, Sónia Cruz   +2 more
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Laboratory Rearing of the Photosynthetic Sea Slug Elysia crispata (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa): Implications for the Study of Kleptoplasty and Species Conservation [PDF]

Biology
Some Sacoglossa sea slugs are capable of stealing and maintaining functional intracellular chloroplasts—kleptoplasts—from their macroalgal prey for periods of up to several months, a process known as kleptoplasty. Although the cultivation of these marine
Paulo Cartaxana, Diana Lopes, Vesa Havurinne, Maria I. Silva, Ricardo Calado, Sónia Cruz   +5 more
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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, Grzymbowski Yvonne P, Händeler Katharina, Wägele Heike   +3 more
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Hiding behaviour of Oxynoe olivacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa) in the invasive seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia [PDF]

Functional Ecology, 2013
The occurrence of the invasive seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia in the Straits of Messina (Italy) provides an excellent opportunity to examine the spatial and temporal patterns of abundance of the endemic Mediterranean sacoglossan Oxynoe olivacea. Densities of
Agnetta, D., Bonaviri, C., Chemello, R., Gianguzza, P., J. e. n. s. e. n., .   +4 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the ‘solar-powered’ sea slug Plakobranchus cf. ocellatus (Heterobranchia: Panpulmonata: Sacoglossa) [PDF]

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, Maximiliano Ruiz-Tagle Lui, Sugirthan Sivalingam, Kerstin U. Ludwig, Heike Wägele, Alexander Donath   +5 more
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Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of the Mucus of the Tropical Sea Slug Elysia crispata [PDF]

Molecules
Elysia 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, Eva Cunha, Tiago Conde, Anthony Moreira, Sónia Cruz, Pedro Domingues, Manuela Oliveira, Paulo Cartaxana   +7 more
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Sacoglosos (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa) del estado Nueva Esparta y Los Frailes, Venezuela

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2016
Se presenta una lista sistemática de 7 especies de gasterópodos sacoglosos recolectadas desde marzo de 2013 hasta enero de 2014 en el estado Nueva Esparta y Los Frailes.
Makcim de Sisto, Roberta Crescini, William Villalba, Beatriz Ríos, Verónica Gómez, Yennimar Mata   +5 more
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How does temperature affect functional kleptoplasty? Comparing populations of the solar-powered sister-species Elysia timida Risso, 1818 and Elysia cornigera Nuttall, 1989 (Gastropoda: Sacoglossa) [PDF]

Frontiers in Zoology, 2018
Background Despite widespread interest in solar-powered sea slugs (Sacoglossa: Gastropoda), relatively little is know about how they actually perform functional kleptoplasty. Sister-taxa Elysia timida and E.
Elise Marie Jerschabek Laetz, Heike Wägele   +1 more
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