Sven Gould from Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and his colleagues showed that even when photosynthesis was blocked, the slugs could survive without food for a long time, and seemed to fare just as well as food-deprived slugs exposed to light. They starved six specimens of for 55 ...
Pierce9,13 & Jian Wang2,12 Elysia chlorotica, a sacoglossan sea slug found off the East Coast of the United States, is well-known for its ability to sequester chloroplasts from its algal prey and survive by photosynthesis for up to 12 months in the absence of food supply. Here we ...
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Similar observations were made in juveniles of Elysia chlorotica in which a slight increase in length was observed shortly after entering starvation, followed by a decrease in length in the longer term (Pelletreau et al. 2012). As long as the kleptoplasts are fully functional, as suggested ...
Nucleotide sequences were translated into their corresponding six protein reading frames using Geneious Prime 2023.0.4. We proceeded with the reading frames which did not contain any stop codon. These sequences were then blasted against the annotations ofE. timida,E. chlorotica,E. crispata, E. ...
months) in Elysia chlorotica [18,23]. Short periods of kleptoplast functionality may be due to the fact that kleptoplasts, which often degrade under high light irradiances [24,25], are not replen- ished in starved individuals, and may be the reason why previous studies have failed to det...
Evolution & development A Functional Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Pathway Identified in the Kleptoplastic Sea SlugElysia chlorotica UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Kathleen M. Scott SchwartzJulie AThe sacoglossan sea slug, , feeds upon and sequesters plastids from the heterokont alga, , and maintains the ...
chlorotica is the first animal known to synthesize Chla; moreover, this finding helps elucidate how ongoing photosynthesis can occur in the sea slug after many months in the absence of its algal food.University of South Florida.Schwartz, Julie A....
Also known as: Elysia chlorotica, eastern emerald elysiaWritten by John P. Rafferty Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Article History Related Topics: photosynthesis Vaucheria litorea See all related content Elysia chlorotica, species of sea slug belonging to the family Elysiidae...