An E. chlorotica individual consuming its obligate algal food Vaucheria litorea
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Heterobranchia
Family:
Plakobranchidae
Genus:
Elysia
Species:
E. chlorotica
Binomial name
Elysia chlorotica
Gould, 1870
Elysia chlorotica (common name the eastern emerald elysia) is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc. This sea slug superficially resembles a nudibranch, yet it does not belong to that clade. Instead it is a member of the clade Sacoglossa, the sap-sucking sea slugs. Some members of this group use chloroplasts from the algae they eat for photosynthesis, a phenomenon known as kleptoplasty. Elysia chlorotica is one species of such "solar-powered sea slugs". It lives in a subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts of the marine heterokont alga Vaucheria litorea.
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arrived about 180 million years ago. The eastern emerald sea slug Elysiachlorotica 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 Elysiachlorotica, also maintain a symbiotic relationship with chloroplasts...
transferred from algae to the animals. DNA amplification experiments on Elysiachlorotica adults and eggs using Vaucheria litorea derived primers revealed the...
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