Origin and significance of two pairs of head tentacles in the radiation of euthyneuran sea slugs and land snails [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The gastropod infraclass Euthyneura comprises at least 30,000 species of snails and slugs, including nudibranch sea slugs, sea hares and garden snails, that flourish in various environments on earth.
Bastian Brenzinger +2 more
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Transcriptomics provides a robust framework for the relationships of the major clades of cladobranch sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia), but fails to resolve the position of the enigmatic genus Embletonia [PDF]
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background The soft-bodied cladobranch sea slugs represent roughly half of the biodiversity of marine nudibranch molluscs on the planet. Despite their global distribution from shallow waters to the deep sea, from tropical into polar seas, and their ...
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Loss of state transitions in Bryopsidales macroalgae and kleptoplastic sea slugs (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa) [PDF]
Communications BiologyGreen macroalgae within the order Bryopsidales lack the fundamental photoprotective mechanisms of green algae, the xanthophyll cycle and energy-dependent dissipation of excess light.
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A cryptic radiation of Caribbean sea slugs revealed by integrative analysis: <i>Cyerce</i> '<i>antillensis</i>' (Sacoglossa: Caliphyllidae) is six distinct species. [PDF]
Zool J Linn Soc, 2023 Integrative studies have revealed cryptic radiations in several Caribbean lineages of heterobranch sea slugs, raising questions about the evolutionary mechanisms that promote speciation within the tropical Western Atlantic.
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Revista Mexicana de BiodiversidadWhile the diversity of sea slugs in the northern area of the Pacific coast of Mexico has been studied thoroughly in the last decades, little is known about the composition of species in the southern states of Mexico.
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Photosynthetic sea slugs induce protective changes to the light reactions of the chloroplasts they steal from algae [PDF]
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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Shallow water sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the northwestern coast of the Sea of Japan, north of Peter the Great Bay, Russia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The coast of northern Primorye region, north of Peter the Great Bay has been sparsely studied in regards to its molluscan fauna, with just a few works reviewing the distribution of local mollusks.
Anton Chichvarkhin
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Provision of phosphates by the host supports kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs [PDF]
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Ultraviolet screening by slug tissue and tight packing of plastids protect photosynthetic sea slugs from photoinhibition. [PDF]
Photosynth Res, 2022 One of the main mysteries regarding photosynthetic sea slugs is how the slug plastids handle photoinhibition, the constant light-induced damage to Photosystem II of photosynthesis.
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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.
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