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| Title |
Identification of sequestered chloroplasts in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda)
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-11-15 |
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| Authors |
Gregor Christa, Katharina Händeler, Till F Schäberle, Gabriele M König, Heike Wägele |
| Abstract |
Sacoglossan sea slugs are well known for their unique ability among metazoans to incorporate functional chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) in digestive glandular cells, enabling the slugs to use these as energy source when starved for weeks and months. However, members assigned to the shelled Oxynoacea and Limapontioidea (often with dorsal processes) are in general not able to keep the incorporated chloroplasts functional. Since obviously no algal genes are present within three (out of six known) species with chloroplast retention of several months, other factors enabling functional kleptoplasty have to be considered. Certainly, the origin of the chloroplasts is important, however, food source of most of the about 300 described species is not known so far. Therefore, a deduction of specific algal food source as a factor to perform functional kleptoplasty was still missing. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 66 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 13% |
| Researcher | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 13 | 19% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 37 | 54% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 9% |
| Chemistry | 4 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 14 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 April 2021.
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#6,754,661
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Zoology
#310
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#60,506
of 239,315 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Zoology
#13
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