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Identification of sequestered chloroplasts in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

BACKGROUND: Sacoglossan sea slugs are well known for their unique ability among metazoans to incorporate functional chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) in digestive glandular cells, enabling the slugs to use these as energy source when starved for weeks and months. However, members assigned to the shelled O...

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Autores principales: Christa, Gregor, Händeler, Katharina, Schäberle, Till F, König, Gabriele M, Wägele, Heike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24555467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-15