Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Stamen, Aequorea Victoria, Fusion Protein
13 Oct 2017
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Marine slugs: lives in the ocean, slug is green since it is able to photosynthesize, solar powered opisthobranchs, this marine snail elysia chorotica kidnaps chloroplast by eating algae. Scientists have shown that once a young slug has slurped its first chloroplast meal from one of its few favored species of vaucheria algae, the slug does not have to eat again for the rest of its life. Can encode and transcriptionally active in these slugs: from the chloroplast donor, vaucheria litorea. Parasites that live in insects, live in animals, carrier of sleeping sickness. Tsetse fly comes along and has a blood meal: releases the trypanosomes, some physiology happening inside the fly such that the trypanosomes will survive and be passed on. Fly releases trypanosomes during bloodmeal and the trypanosomes get into the bloodstream. Another fly might come by again and pick up the trypanosomes again to infect another host. Each one of the circles are linked with 3 other circles.
