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Switching off photosynthesis

Switching off photosynthesis

Content Provider	Taylor & Francis Online
Author	Vries, Jan De Christa, Gregor Jahns, Peter Gould, Sven B.
Abstract	Sometimes the elementary experiment can lead to the most surprising result. This was recently the case when we had to learn that so-called “photosynthetic slugs“ survive just fine in the dark and with chemically inhibited photosynthesis. Sacoglossan sea slugs feed on large siphonaceous, often single-celled algae by ingesting their cytosolic content including the organelles. A few species of the sacoglossan clade fascinate researcher from many disciplines, as they can survive starvation periods of many months through the plastids they sequestered, but not immediately digested – a process known as kleptoplasty. Ever since the term “leaves that crawl“ was coined in the 1970s, the course was set in regard to how the subject was studied, but the topics of how slugs survive starvation and what for instance mediates kleptoplast longevity have often been conflated. It was generally assumed that slugs become photoautotrophic upon plastid sequestration, but most recent results challenge that view and the predominant role of the kleptoplasts in sacoglossan sea slugs.
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
ISSN	19420889
DOI	10.4161/cib.28029
Journal	Communicative & Integrative Biology
Volume Number	7
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Publisher Date	2014-02-06
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Sacoglossa Elysia Kleptoplasty Photoautotrophy Photosynthesis Carbon fixation Photosynthetic slugs
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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