Is ftsH the Key to Plastid Longevity in Sacoglossan Slugs?

Photosystem II Assembly: From Cyanobacteria to Plants

(2013) Jörg Nickelsen et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Crawling leaves: photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs

(2013) Sónia Cruz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Genome Analysis of Elysia chlorotica Egg DNA Provides No Evidence for Horizontal Gene Transfer into the Germ Line of This Kleptoplastic Mollusc

(2013) Debashish Bhattacharya et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Plastid-bearing sea slugs fix CO2 in the light but do not require photosynthesis to survive

(2013) G. Christa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Protein quality control in organelles — AAA/FtsH story

(2012) Hanna Janska et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Assembling and maintaining the Photosystem II complex in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria

(2012) Josef Komenda et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

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

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

Symbiosis between hydra and chlorella: Molecular phylogenetic analysis and experimental study provide insight into its origin and evolution

(2012) Hitomi Kawaida et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Algae's complex origins

(2012) Sven B. Gould   NATURE

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

Lifetimes of photosystem I and II proteins in the cyanobacteriumSynechocystissp. PCC 6803

(2011) Danny C.I. Yao et al.   FEBS LETTERS

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

The Bryopsis hypnoides Plastid Genome: Multimeric Forms and Complete Nucleotide Sequence

(2011) Fang Lü et al.   PLoS One

Recent advances in understanding the assembly and repair of photosystem II

(2010) Peter J. Nixon et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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 FtsH Protease Heterocomplex in Arabidopsis: Dispensability of Type-B Protease Activity for Proper Chloroplast Development

(2010) D. Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Katharina Händeler et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The Variegated Mutants Lacking Chloroplastic FtsHs Are Defective in D1 Degradation and Accumulate Reactive Oxygen Species

(2009) Y. Kato et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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