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Sea-slug invasion of the land [PDF]
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2015 Invasion of the land has been a considerable challenge for aquatic organismal lineages, primarily because of desiccation and lack of physical support in air. Gastropod molluscs are among the most successful animals in this habitat shift because of their hard exoskeleton, whereas land slugs, regarded as descendants of land snails, gradually lost their ...
Yasunori Kano +4 more
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Synapses, sea slugs, and psychiatry [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2001 This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, announced on 9 October 2000, has gone to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel. The citation states that the prize is shared for pioneering discoveries in slow synaptic transmission, which are “crucial for an understanding of how the normal functioning of the brain and how disturbances in ...
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Acquired phototrophy through retention of functional chloroplasts increases growth efficiency of the sea slug Elysia viridis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Photosynthesis is a fundamental process sustaining heterotrophic organisms at all trophic levels. Some mixotrophs can retain functional chloroplasts from food (kleptoplasty), and it is hypothesized that carbon acquired through kleptoplasty may enhance ...
Finn A Baumgartner +2 more
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Metabolic responses of photosynthetic sea slugs to a changing environment [PDF]
, 2016 Sacoglossan sea slugs have complex interactions with their environment. They are well known for their ability to sequester stolen chloroplasts and utilize them for photoautotrophic CO2 fixation, yet the dependence on this is not clear in most species ...
Jacey C Van Wert
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Anesthetizing solar-powered sea slugs for photobiological studies [PDF]
, 2012 Photosynthetic sea slugs have the ability to "steal" chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) from marine macroalgae and keep them structurally intact and physiologically functional.
Serôdio, João +4 more
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On the art of stealing chloroplasts
eLife, 2020 Sea slugs increase the longevity of the chloroplasts they steal from algae by limiting the harmful side-effects of photosynthesis.
Paulo Cartaxana, Sónia Cruz
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Photoprotection and genetic autonomy of plastids in photosynthetic sea slugs [PDF]
, 2022 Certain sea slugs “steal” the photosynthetic cellular organelles, the plastids, from their prey algae and incorporate them, still functional, inside their own cells. These animals can then remain photosynthetic for months.
Havurinne, Vesa
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Photoprotective Non-photochemical Quenching Does Not Prevent Kleptoplasts From Net Photoinactivation
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 The enigmatic association of photosynthetically active chloroplasts from algae and some sacoglossan sea slugs, called functional kleptoplasty, is a functional unique system of photosymbioses observed in metazoans.
Gregor Christa +11 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018 The mitogenome sequence of sea slug, Chromodoris orientalis (Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae), has been decoded for the first time by coverage genome sequencing method. The overall base composition of C.
Cheol Yu +3 more
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Diversity, 2020 The Salento peninsula is a portion of the Italian mainland separating two distinct Mediterranean basins, the Ionian and the Adriatic seas. Several authors have studied the marine Heterobranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda) fauna composition living in the ...
Giulia Furfaro +3 more
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