Symbiosis in sacoglossan opisthobranchs: functional capacity of symbiotic chloroplasts

✍ Scribed by R. W. Greene

• Book ID: 104737221
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 463 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0025-3162
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00354917

✦ Synopsis

It has been previously reported that many species of the order Sacoglossa (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) contain algal chloroplasts within the cells of their digestive gland and mainrain them in a symbiotic condition. In the present study, two species, Elysia hedgpethi M~cvs and Placobranch~s ianthobapsus GOVLD, were compared as to their abilities to retain