Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Among metazoans, retention of functional diet-derived chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) is known only from the sea slug taxon Sacoglossa (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Intracellular maintenance of plastids in the slug's digestive epit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
| Online Access: | http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/6/1/28 |