Crawling leaves: photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs

Anesthetizing Solar-Powered Sea Slugs for Photobiological Studies

(2016) Sónia Cruz et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Photosynthetic efficiency and kleptoplast pigment diversity in the sea slug Thuridilla hopei (Vérany, 1853)

(2013) P. Ventura et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Colour morphotypes of Elysia timida (Sacoglossa, Gastropoda) are determined by light acclimation in food algae

(2012) J Costa et al.   Aquatic Biology

Effects of photosynthesis on the survival and weight retention of two kleptoplastic sacoglossan opisthobranchs

(2012) Shoko Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Morphology, molecular phylogeny and photosynthetic activity of the sacoglossan mollusc, Elysia nigrocapitata, from Korea

(2012) Tatyana A. Klochkova et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

What remains after 2 months of starvation? Analysis of sequestered algae in a photosynthetic slug, Plakobranchus ocellatus (Sacoglossa, Opisthobranchia), by barcoding

(2012) Gregor Christa et al.   PLANTA

Algivore or Phototroph? Plakobranchus ocellatus (Gastropoda) Continuously Acquires Kleptoplasts and Nutrition from Multiple Algal Species in Nature

(2012) Taro Maeda et al.   PLoS One

Laboratory culturing of Elysia chlorotica reveals a shift from transient to permanent kleptoplasty

(2012) Karen N. Pelletreau et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Physiological versus behavioral photoprotection in intertidal epipelic and epipsammic benthic diatom communities

(2011) P. Cartaxana et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Inhibiting diatom motility: a new tool for the study of the photophysiology of intertidal microphytobenthic biofilms

(2011) Paulo Cartaxana et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Transcriptomic Evidence for the Expression of Horizontally Transferred Algal Nuclear Genes in the Photosynthetic Sea Slug, Elysia chlorotica

(2011) Sidney K. Pierce et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Sea Slug Kleptoplasty and Plastid Maintenance in a Metazoan

(2011) K. N. Pelletreau et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Foraging Behavior under Starvation Conditions Is Altered via Photosynthesis by the Marine Gastropod, Elysia clarki

(2011) Michael L. Middlebrooks et al.   PLoS One

Feeding specificity and photosynthetic activity of Korean sacoglossan mollusks

(2011) Tatyana A. Klochkova et al.   ALGAE

The making of a photosynthetic animal

(2010) M. E. Rumpho et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Behaviour and a functional xanthophyll cycle enhance photo-regulation mechanisms in the solar-powered sea slug Elysia timida (Risso, 1818)

(2010) Bruno Jesus et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Photobiology of the symbiotic acoel flatworm Symsagittifera roscoffensis: algal symbiont photoacclimation and host photobehaviour

(2010) João Serôdio et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Transcriptomic Evidence That Longevity of Acquired Plastids in the Photosynthetic Slugs Elysia timida and Plakobranchus ocellatus Does Not Entail Lateral Transfer of Algal Nuclear Genes

(2010) H. Wagele et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The acquisition of phototrophy: adaptive strategies of hosting endosymbionts and organelles

(2010) Matthew D. Johnson   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Regulation and function of xanthophyll cycle-dependent photoprotection in algae

(2010) Reimund Goss et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Chlorophyll a synthesis by an animal using transferred algal nuclear genes

(2010) Sidney K. Pierce et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life

(2009) Katharina Händeler et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Phagotrophy in the origins of photosynthesis in eukaryotes and as a complementary mode of nutrition in phototrophs: relation to Darwin's insectivorous plants

(2009) J. A. Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

In vivo and in vitro differences in chloroplast functionality in the two north Atlantic sacoglossans (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) Placida dendritica and Elysia viridis

(2009) Jussi Evertsen et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Effects of light exposure on the retention of kleptoplastic photosynthetic activity in the sacoglossan mollusc Elysia viridis

(2009) S. Vieira et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

In vivo quantification of kleptoplastic chlorophyll a content in the “solar-powered” sea slug Elysia viridis using optical methods: spectral reflectance analysis and PAM fluorometry

(2009) João Serôdio et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Dynamics of Photosynthesis

(2008) Stephan Eberhard et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

The role of kleptoplasts in the survival rates of Elysia timida (Risso, 1818): (Sacoglossa: Opisthobranchia) during periods of food shortage

(2008) F. Giménez Casalduero et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica

(2008) M. E. Rumpho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Relationship of rapid light curves of variable fluorescence to photoacclimation and non-photochemical quenching in a benthic diatom

(2007) Sónia Cruz et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY