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.
Vesa Havurinne +5 more
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Alien Travel Companies: The Case of Two Sea Slugs and One Bryozoan in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
Diversity, 2022 Mediterranean marine fauna is constantly changing due to the entry of non-indigenous (NI) species and the loss of endemic biodiversity. In this framework, it is very important to monitor this constant change and investigate possible new pathways of ...
Erika Mioni, Giulia Furfaro
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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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Beyond Capricornia: Tropical Sea Slugs (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) Extend Their Distributions into the Tasman Sea [PDF]
Diversity, 2018 There is increasing evidence of poleward migration of a broad range of taxa under the influence of a warming ocean. However, patchy research effort, the lack of pre-existing baseline data, and taxonomic uncertainty for some taxa means that unambiguous ...
Matt J. Nimbs, Stephen D. A. Smith
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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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Genetic autonomy and low singlet oxygen yield support kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2021 All data from the main figures of the manuscript "Genetic autonomy and low singlet oxygen yield support kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs"
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Shallow water heterobranch sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the Región de Atacama, northern Chile [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The coast of northern Chile has been sparsely studied in regards to its invertebrate fauna, with just a few works reviewing the distribution of local mollusks.
Juan Francisco Araya, Ángel Valdés
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Plastid-bearing sea slugs fix CO 2 in the light but do not require photosynthesis to survive [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Several sacoglossan sea slugs (Plakobranchoidea) feed upon plastids of large unicellular algae. Four species-called long-term retention (LtR) species-are known to sequester ingested plastids within specialized cells of the digestive gland.
Heike Wägele +2 more
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Selective consumption of sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) by scleractinian corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Recent studies revealed that reef corals can eat large-sized pelagic and benthic animals in addition to small planktonic prey. As follow-up, we document natural ingestion of sea slugs by corals and investigate the role of sacoglossan sea slugs as ...
Manuel Caballer Gutierrez +2 more
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Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2022 Heterobranch sea slugs (Gastropoda) present reduction, internalization, or absence of shell, and include more than 6,000 described species. Approximately 250 species are recorded from Brazil but only 14 had been previously recorded from Rio Grande do ...
Marlon Delgado +6 more
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