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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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| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2009
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| 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 |