Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life

BACKGROUND: Among metazoans, retention of functional diet-derived chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) is known only from the sea slug taxon Sacoglossa (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Intracellular maintenance of plastids in the slug's digestive epithelium has long attracted interest given its implicatio...

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Autores principales: Händeler, Katharina, Grzymbowski, Yvonne P, Krug, Patrick J, Wägele, Heike
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19951407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-28

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19951407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-28

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