Sacoglossan sea slugs make routine use of photosynthesis by a variety of species‐specific adaptations

SK Pierce, NE Curtis, ML Middlebrooks - Invertebrate Biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The phenomenon of the uptake, intracellular sequestration, and subsequent usage of algal
chloroplasts by the digestive cells of many species of sacoglossan sea slugs, currently …

Why it is time to look beyond algal genes in photosynthetic slugs

C Rauch, J Vries, S Rommel, LE Rose… - Genome Biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic organelles depend on nuclear genes to perpetuate their biochemical integrity.
This is true for mitochondria in all eukaryotes and plastids in plants and algae. Then how do …

[HTML][HTML] Photoprotection in sequestered plastids of sea slugs and respective algal sources

S Cruz, P Cartaxana, R Newcomer, G Dionísio… - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Some sea slugs are capable of retaining functional sequestered chloroplasts (kleptoplasts)
for variable periods of time. The mechanisms supporting the maintenance of these …

Kleptoplastic sacoglossan species have very different capacities for plastid maintenance despite utilizing the same algal donors

NE Curtis, ML Middlebrooks, JA Schwartz, SK Pierce - Symbiosis, 2015 - Springer
The sea slug Elysia clarki sequesters photosynthetically functional chloroplasts from at least
a dozen algal species and maintains these plastids for up to 4 months. Elysia papillosa and …

[HTML][HTML] Deep sequencing revealed molecular signature of horizontal gene transfer of plant like transcripts in the mosquito Anopheles culicifacies: an evolutionary …

P Sharma, TD De, S Sharma, AK Mishra… - …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In prokaryotes, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been regarded as an important
evolutionary drive to acquire and retain beneficial genes for their survival in diverse …

Characterization of the bacterial communities associated with the tropical sacoglossan mollusks Elysia rufescens and Elysia crispata

J Davis - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Mollusks are the largest group of marine invertebrates and are known to harbor bacterial
communities; however, the characterization and metabolic roles of these communities to the …

Viral Metagenomics and Anthropology in the Americas

A Ozga - 2015 - shareok.org
Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth. As humans, we
could not exist without them. For billions of years they have been the unseen mediators of …

[PDF][PDF] Генетичні комунікації в системі паразит–живитель

ВМ Помогайбо, АВ Петрушов - Світ медицини та біології, 2015 - irbis-nbuv.gov.ua
У статті наведені сучасні дані про провідні патогенетичні механізми виникнення
медикаментозних уражень печінки на фоні лікування репродуктивної функції печінки у …

[PDF][PDF] NE Curtis, ML Middlebrooks

JA Schwartz, SK Pierce - Symbiosis, 2015 - researchgate.net
The sea slug Elysia clarki sequesters photosynthetically functional chloroplasts from at least
a dozen algal species and maintains these plastids for up to 4 months. Elysia papillosa and …

GENETIC COMMUNICATIONS IN SYSTEM “PARASITE-OWNER”

VM Pomohaybo, AV Petrushov - World of Medicine and Biology, 2015 - womab.com.ua
Annotation Genetic communications (horizontal transfer of genes, lateral transfer of genes)
consist of transfer by organism its genes to other organism which isn't his descendant. This …