Solar-powered sea slugs. Mollusc/algal chloroplast symbiosis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-38

  Rumpho, Mary E ^a   Summer, Elizabeth J ^a   Manhart, James R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CHLOROPLAST; MOLLUSC; SEA SLUG; SOLAR ENERGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0034072187     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.123.1.29     Document Type: Short Survey

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