Mollusc/algal chloroplast symbiosis: How can isolated chloroplasts continue to function for months in the cytosol of a sea slug in the absence of an algal nucleus?

Zoology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 303-312

  Rumpho, Mary E ^a   Summer, Elizabeth J ^b   Green, Brian J ^c   Fox, Theodore C ^d   Manhart, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplasts; Elysia chiorotica; Mollusc; Symbiosis; Vaucheria litorea

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044532646     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0944-2006-00036     Document Type: Review

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