A new case of kleptoplasty in animals: Marine flatworms steal functional plastids from diatoms

To date, sea slugs have been considered the only animals known to sequester functional algal plastids into their own cells, via a process called “kleptoplasty.” We report here, however, that endosymbionts in the marine flatworms Baicalellia solaris and Pogaina paranygulgus are isolated plastids stol...

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Autores principales: Van Steenkiste, Niels W. L., Stephenson, India, Herranz, María, Husnik, Filip, Keeling, Patrick J., Leander, Brian S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019
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Research Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31328166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw4337

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31328166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw4337

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