On Being the Right Size as an Animal with Plastids
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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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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Observation records of heterobranch sea slugs in southeastern Osaka Bay(2015-2022) [PDF]
2015年から2022年にかけて，大阪湾南東部沿岸4地点でウミウシ類(オオシイノミガイ目，マメ ウラシマ目，フシエラガイ目，裸鰓目，ヒトエガイ目，頭楯目，アメフラシ目，翼足目，スナウミウ シ目，嚢舌上目)を対象とした観察会を実施した.観察会は季節を問わず計53回実施し，参加者数は のべ1,729名であった.また，観察されたウミウシ類は計 30科109種であった.本稿では観察会ごとの 出現種とその個体数について報告を行い，地点ごとのウミウシ相の特徴について議論する.Field day trips ...
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Ocean acidification promotes cellular burst on photosynthetic (kleptoplastic) sea slugs [PDF]
, 2015 Ocean acidification is known to trigger deleterious effects on several marine photosynthetic invertebrates [1]. Photosymbiosis, whereby photosynthetic microorganisms or organelles live inside an animal (host) is widespread in the marine biota, underlying
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Photosynthate accumulation in solar-powered sea slugs - starving slugs survive due to accumulated starch reserves. [PDF]
Front Zool, 2017 Background Solar-powered sea slugs are famed for their ability to survive starvation due to incorporated algal chloroplasts. It is well established that algal-derived carbon can be traced in numerous slug-derived compounds, showing that
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Switching off photosynthesis: The dark side of sacoglossan slugs [PDF]
, 2014 Sometimes the elementary experiment can lead to the most surprising result. This was recently the case when we had to learn that so-called "photosynthetic slugs" survive just fine in the dark and with chemically inhibited photosynthesis.
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Bacterial diversity in the clarki ecotype of the photosynthetic sacoglossan, Elysia crispata
MicrobiologyOpen, 2020 Few studies have examined the bacterial communities associated with photosynthetic sacoglossan sea slugs. In this study, we determined the bacterial diversity in the clarki ecotype, Elysia crispata using 16S rRNA sequencing.
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Beauties and beasts: a portrait of sea slugs aquaculture [PDF]
Research on sea slugs production has steadily increased in the last decades as a result of their use as model organisms for biomedical studies, bioprospecting for new marine drugs and their growing demand for academic research and the marine aquarium ...
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Figure 2 in Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
, 2022 Figure 2. Heterobranch sea slugs from Rio Grande do Norte. (A) Micromelo undatus (15 mm – GEEFAA 294); (B) Haminoea antillarum (2 mm – GEEFAA 344); (C) Camachoaglaja berolina (7 mm – GEEFAA 270); (D) Chelidonura hirundinina (16 mm – GEEFAA 1320); (E ...
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Preservation and remodelling of chloroplast lipids in photosynthetic sea slug host cells
Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe capacity to retain long-term functional algal chloroplasts within animal cells is a singular trait of certain Sacoglossa sea slugs. The sequestered chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) confer photosynthetic capacity to the host.
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