Photosynthetic animals produce oxygen, providing an ideal lens for studying how oxygen
dynamics influence thermal sensitivity. The algivorous sea slug Elysia viridis can steal and …

Some sacoglossan sea slugs steal functional macroalgal chloroplasts (kleptoplasts). In this
study, we investigated the effects of algal prey species and abundance on the growth and …

Photosynthesizers face a trade-off regarding light: they need enough to maintain high
photosynthetic rates, yet excess leads to oxidative stress. Despite this, light and its …

Simple Summary Some species of sacoglossan sea slugs are able to steal chloroplasts from
the algae they feed on and maintain them functional for several months, a process termed …

Functional kleptoplasty is a photosymbiotic relationship, in which photosynthetically active
chloroplasts serve as an intracellular symbiont for a heterotrophic host. Among Metazoa …

A new sacoglossan species of the genus Elysia Risso, 1818 from southern Italy is described
based on its external morphology, color pattern, radular teeth, and reproductive system …

Abstract Sacoglossans, or “sap-sucking” sea slugs, are primarily algivorous, with many taxa
exhibiting kleptoplasty, the feeding and retaining of photosynthetically active chloroplasts …

The genus Elysia comprises about one-third of the species richness in Sacoglossa.
However, the species diversity in the genus remains poorly characterized in some areas like …

Certain sacoglossan sea slugs sequester photosynthetic-active chloroplasts from their algal
prey. After ingestion, these chloroplasts are recognized through pattern-recognition …

Plakobranchus ocellatus is a sacoglossan sea slug that feeds on multiple algal species and
retains chloroplasts as kleptoplasts for several months. The seasonal differences in the …