Chloroplast digestion and the development of functional kleptoplasty in juvenile Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) as compared to short-term and non-chloroplast-retaining sacoglossan slugs.
Sacoglossan sea slugs are the only metazoans known to integrated Larder Fridge perform functional kleptoplasty, the sequestration and retention of functional chloroplasts within their digestive gland cells.Remarkably, a few species with this ability can survive starvation periods of 3-12 months likely due to their stolen chloroplasts.There are no r