Slugs' last meals: Molecular identification of sequestered chloroplasts from different algal origins in Sacoglossa (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda)

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 968-978

  Handeler, Katharina ^a   Wagele, Heike ^a   Wahrmund, Ute ^b   Rudinger, Mareike ^b   Knoop, Volker ^b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b Inst F Zellulare und Molec Bot   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Food; Kleptoplasts; Sacoglossa; tufA; Ulvophyceae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ELYSIA CRISPATA; ELYSIA VIRIDIS; GASTROPODA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; SACOGLOSSA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 78650432850     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02853.x     Document Type: Article

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