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- Title
Sea Slug Kleptoplasty and Plastid Maintenance in a Metazoan.
- Authors
Pelletreau, Karen N.; Bhattacharya, Debashish; Price, Dana C.; Worful, Jared M.; Moustafa, Ahmed; Rumpho, Mary E.
- Abstract
The article compares and contrasts past approaches to understanding the basis of plastid maintenance and function in a metazoan with current work using next-generation sequencing. It explains long-term plastid maintenance based on the presence of algal nuclei within kleptoplastic sacoglossans. The article also suggests considering alternative hypotheses to horizontal gene transfer (HGT) to explain plastid function in sacoglossans.
- Subjects
PLASTIDS; METAZOA; ALGAE; SACOGLOSSA; PLANT genetics
- Publication
Plant Physiology, 2011, Vol 155, Issue 4, p1561
- ISSN
0032-0889
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1104/pp.111.174078