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

What Hydra Has to Say About the Role and Origin of Symbiotic Interactions

(2016) Thomas C. G. Bosch   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

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

The chloroplast protein import system: From algae to trees

(2012) Lan-Xin Shi et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

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

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

Transcriptome Analysis of Foraminiferan Elphidium margaritaceum Questions the Role of Gene Transfer in Kleptoplastidy

(2012) Loïc Pillet et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Acquired Phototrophy in Ciliates: A Review of Cellular Interactions and Structural Adaptations1

(2011) MATTHEW D. JOHNSON   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

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

Plastid Proteomics in Higher Plants: Current State and Future Goals

(2011) K. J. van Wijk 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

The making of a photosynthetic animal

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

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

From Endosymbiosis to Synthetic Photosynthetic Life

(2010) A. P. M. Weber et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Shaping the Polypropionate Biosynthesis in the Solar-Powered MolluscElysia viridis

(2009) Adele Cutignano et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

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

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

Plastid Evolution

(2008) Sven B. Gould et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Photosynthetic symbioses in animals

(2008) A.A. Venn et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

ARIADNE’S THREAD: GUIDING A PROTEIN ACROSS FIVE MEMBRANES IN CRYPTOPHYTES

(2008) Sven B. Gould   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

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