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This research explores how certain sea slugs maintain functional chloroplasts from algae within their cells, a process known as kleptoplasty. It aims to uncover the cellular mechanisms that support this phenomenon and the benefits it provides to the host organism.
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Photosynthesis is almost exclusively restricted to algae and plants, with the exception of some protozoans, flatworms and marine slugs that acquire chloroplasts from algae.
In metazoans, the capacity to incorporate functional chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) for long periods of time has only been described in sacoglossan sea slugs.
Some species retain kleptoplasts photosynthetically active for several months that persist without access to algal gene products and despite the release of pote…
UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO
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