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Molecular phylogeny of the sacoglossa, with a discussion of gain and loss of kleptoplasty in the evolution of the group.
The Biological bulletin - 1 Aug 2010
Maeda Taro, Kajita Tadashi, Maruyama Tadashi, Hirano Yoshiaki
Abstract excerpt
Sacoglossan sea slugs retain the chloroplasts from food algae in their cells (kleptoplasty) and obtain the photosynthetic products, but the capability of kleptoplasty differs among species. One evolutionary hypothesis for kleptoplasty is that the family Volvatellidae is the ancestral sacoglossan lineage in which kleptoplasty arose, but this is based on ambiguous phylogenetic relationships. To test this...
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