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    Elysia chlorotica (common name the eastern emerald elysia) is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc...
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    commonly known as sap-sucking slugs. Elysia sea slugs graze on algae and some species such as E. viridis and E. chlorotica hijack the chloroplasts for themselves...
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    arrived about 180 million years ago. The eastern emerald sea slug Elysia chlorotica has been suggested by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis...
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    their volumes. In addition, a few marine mollusks, such as Elysia viridis and Elysia chlorotica, also maintain a symbiotic relationship with chloroplasts...
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  • compared to their volumes. In addition, a few marine mollusks Elysia viridis and Elysia chlorotica also maintain a symbiotic relationship with chloroplasts...
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    Elysia chlorotica's endosymbiont is the algae Vaucheria litorea. The jellyfish Mastigias have a similar relationship with an algae. Elysia chlorotica...
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    transferred from algae to the animals. DNA amplification experiments on Elysia chlorotica adults and eggs using Vaucheria litorea derived primers revealed the...
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    kleptoplastic association, which can last up to ten months, is found in Elysia chlorotica, which acquires chloroplasts by eating the alga Vaucheria litorea...
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    chloroplasts Euglena sanguinea Euglena, moving by metaboly and swimming Elysia chlorotica Kleptoplasty "The Euglenoid Project: Alphabetic Listing of Taxa"....
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    available. The egg mass is a flat greenish coil of several turns. Elysia chlorotica Elysia clarki Zsilavecz, G. (2007). Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula...
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    (photosynthetic symbiont). Vaucheria litorea are consumed by the sea slug Elysia chlorotica, but are only partially digested by them in order to retain the photosynthetic...
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    Elysia crispata, common name the lettuce sea slug or lettuce slug, is a large and colorful species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk. The lettuce...
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  • Quagga mussel (2019) Euprymna scolopes, Hawaiian bobtail squid (2019) Elysia chlorotica, a solar-powered sea slug (2019) Haliotis discus hannai, pacific abalone...
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    and suck fluids out of it. They are then digested. Some Elysia species such as E. chlorotica are known to keep the chloroplasts to photosynthesize. It...
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    Culture. Spring 2022. Trainor, Kim. “An Excerpt from “Seeds”: “Seed 8, Elysia chlorotica” and “Seed 19, Gaia”. Ecozon@. Vol. 12, No.2. Eco-Georgic: From Antiquity...
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