ArticleScience advances2019
A new case of kleptoplasty in animals: Marine flatworms steal functional plastids from diatoms.
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- Sea urchin eggs contain a plastid-derived structure that contributes to their development.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera.iScience · 2025Article
- Engineering signalling pathways in mammalian cells.Nature biomedical engineering · 2024Review
- First record of a proseriate flatworm predating on a rhabdocoel (Platyhelminthes: Proseriata and Rhabdocoela).Biodiversity data journal · 2024Article
- A reference genome for the long-term kleptoplast-retaining sea slug Elysia crispata morphotype clarki.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- Shared ancestry of algal symbiosis and chloroplast sequestration in foraminifera.Science advances · 2023Article
- Prey species and abundance affect growth and photosynthetic performance of the polyphagous sea slugRoyal Society open science · 2023Article
- Cascading effects of prey identity on gene expression in a kleptoplastidic ciliate.The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology · 2023Article
- Kleptoplasty: Getting away with stolen chloroplasts.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Microscopic marine invertebrates are reservoirs for cryptic and diverse protists and fungi.Microbiome · 2022Article
- Ultraviolet screening by slug tissue and tight packing of plastids protect photosynthetic sea slugs from photoinhibition.Photosynthesis research · 2022Article
- Pigment and Fatty Acid Heterogeneity in the Sea SlugAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Photosynthesis from stolen chloroplasts can support sea slug reproductive fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Adaptive significance of light and food for a kleptoplastic sea slug: implications for photosynthesis.Oecologia · 2020Article
- Identification of scavenger receptors and thrombospondin-type-1 repeat proteins potentially relevant for plastid recognition in Sacoglossa.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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- Changes in the transcriptome, ploidy, and optimal light intensity of a cryptomonad upon integration into a kleptoplastic dinoflagellate.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes).Hydrobiologia · 2020Article
- Genomic Insights into Plastid Evolution.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Review
- Functional kleptoplasts intermediate incorporation of carbon and nitrogen in cells of the Sacoglossa sea slug Elysia viridis.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
To date, sea slugs have been considered the only animals known to sequester functional algal plastids into their own cells, via a process called "kleptoplasty." We report here, however, that endosymbionts in the marine flatworms
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