Kleptoplasty or kleptoplastidy is a process in symbiotic relationships whereby plastids, notably chloroplasts from algae, are sequestered by the host....
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Costasiellidae. Despite being animals they indirectly perform photosynthesis, via kleptoplasty. Discovered in 1993 off the coast of the Japanese island Kuroshima, Costasiella...
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The capture and sequestering of photosynthetic cells and chloroplasts, kleptoplasty, occurs in many types of modern eukaryotic organisms. The cytoskeleton...
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chloroplasts from the algae they eat, a very unusual phenomenon known as kleptoplasty, for the "stolen" plastids. This earns them the title of the "solar-powered...
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Rapaza (section Chloroplasts and kleptoplasty)
retains the chloroplasts of its prey for its own use, a process known as kleptoplasty ('stealing of plastids'). After phagocytosis of the algal prey, its cell...
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developed the capacity to sequester ingested plastids—a process known as kleptoplasty. A. F. W. Schimper was the first to name, describe, and provide a clear...
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Elysia crispata (section Kleptoplasty)
quickly, with little chloroplast retention. Upon reaching maturity, kleptoplasty becomes an important energy source. The primary food source of E. crispata...
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chloroplasts, and those with endosymbionts—and those that acquire them through kleptoplasty or through symbiotic associations with prey or enslavement of their organelles...
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chloroplasts from the algae they eat for photosynthesis, a phenomenon known as kleptoplasty. Elysia chlorotica is one species of such "solar-powered sea slugs"....
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Elysia atroviridis (section Kleptoplasty)
capable of kleptoplasty, which is the process of taking chloroplasts from digested algae and using them for photosynthesis. Kleptoplasty is performed...
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Costasiella ocellifera (section Kleptoplasty/feeding)
ocellifera.Costasiella ocellifera shows long-term retention of functional kleptoplasty. The name 'ocellifera' comes from the Latin word for eye, ''ocellus''...
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S2CID 91740559. Stephenson, India (2017). Species discovery, evolution and kleptoplasty in marine meiofaunal flatworms (MSc). University of British Columbia...
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Chloroplast (section Kleptoplasty)
A chloroplast (/ˈklɔːrəˌplæst, -plɑːst/) is a type of membrane-bound organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal...
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lettuce-like ruffles that line its body. This slug, like other Sacoglossa, uses kleptoplasty, a process in which the slug absorbs chloroplasts from the algae it eats...
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(kléptein), κλέπτης (kléptēs) kleptocracy, kleptomania, kleptophobia, kleptoplasty ktet- possession, ownership Greek κτητικός (ktētikós), κτήτωρ (ktḗtōr)...
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Elysia pusilla (section Kleptoplasty)
before hatching. Sacoglossa are the only metazoans on earth to exhibit kleptoplasty. The only other organisms known to have this ability are single celled...
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microalgae has evolved. Some species in the same order has also evolved kleptoplasty. The earliest known fossils confidently classified as tapeworms have...
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capture from the algae in their diet and then store in their bodies (see Kleptoplasty). This allows the mollusks to survive solely by photosynthesis for several...
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the oxygen produced by algal photosynthesis. Some protozoans practice kleptoplasty, stealing chloroplasts from prey organisms and maintaining them within...
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bioluminescent ostracods, including Cypridina noctiluca or Vargula hilgendorfii. Kleptoplasty Bessho-Uehara, Manabu; Yamamoto, Naoyuki; Shigenobu, Shuji; Mori, Hitoshi;...
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chloroplasts, and those with endosymbionts—and others that acquire them through kleptoplasty or by enslaving the entire phototrophic cell. The distinction between...
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the chloroplasts for their own photosynthetic use, a process known as kleptoplasty. Some of these species have been observed practicing autotomy, severing...
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kiloliters of bio jet fuel and biodiesel per year. Elysia chlorotica Kleptoplasty "The Euglenoid Project: Alphabetic Listing of Taxa". The Euglenoid Project...
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may use alien chloroplasts (cleptochloroplasts), obtained from food (kleptoplasty). Some dinoflagellates may feed on other organisms as predators or parasites...
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the only eukaryotes outside Diaphoretickes to do so without performing kleptoplasty,[failed verification] and so obtain energy through photosynthesis. These...
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some other Sacoglossan species carry out a process called functional kleptoplasty. This is a process in which the digestion of algal plastids consumed...
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except for the plastids, which continues to perform photosynthesis (kleptoplasty). Recognition of the importance of mixotrophy as an ecological strategy...
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(kléptein), κλέπτης (kléptēs) kleptocracy, kleptomania, kleptophobia, kleptoplasty ktet- possession, ownership Greek κτητικός (ktētikós), κτήτωρ (ktḗtōr)...
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are also mixotrophic, combining phagotrophy and phototrophy through kleptoplasty or symbiosis with photosynthetic microbes. The ciliate Halteria has been...
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nudibranch aeolids, are known to undergo kleptocnidy (in addition to kleptoplasty), whereby the organisms store nematocysts of digested prey at the tips...
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