Endosymbioses in sacoglossan seaslugs: Plastid-bearing animals that keep photosynthetic organelles without borrowing genes

Endosymbiosis

Volumn 9783709113035, Issue , 2014, Pages 291-324

  Wägele, Heike ^a   Martin, William F ^b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1303-5_14     Document Type: Chapter

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