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Crawling leaves: photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Botany, 2013
Some species of sacoglossan sea slugs can maintain functional chloroplasts from specific algal food sources in the cells of their digestive diverticula. These 'stolen' chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) can survive in the absence of the plant cell and continue ...
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Kleptomaniac sea slugs steal their greens

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Lisa Heinke, Heinke Lisa
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Enter the Giant Sea Slug

2022
Abstract Eric Kandel decides to do more research on learning and memory, this time using the large neurons of the giant sea slug, Aplysia, as his preparation. Ladislav Tauc, already familiar with Aplysia, collaborates in the experiments, many of which are conducted at the Institut Marey in Paris.
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The absent-minded sea slug

Neuroscience Gateway, 2007
Researchers find homologs of genes associated with disorders of the human nervous system in a new database of Aplysia gene expression.
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Sea slugs: beauty in biology

Nature, 1985
Biology of Opisthobranch Molluscs, Vol. II. By T.E. Thompson and G.H. Brown. The Ray Society, British Museum (Natural History), London: 1984. Pp.229. £39.
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SEA SLUG SWIMMING SURPRISE

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2011
![Figure][1] Since the days of Darwin, we have greatly increased our understanding of how organisms have been shaped by evolution. We can uncover the interaction between genes and the environment by studying fossils and the processes by which animals develop.
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Sea Slug

2021
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