Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Vaucheria Litorea, Elysia Chlorotica, Hockey Puck
14 Jul 2016
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This marine snail elysia chlorotica 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. All it has to do is sunbathe: uses the sun for its energy. Functional algal genes have been transferred into the slug genome. The symbiotic chloroplasts residing inside the host molluscan cell are maintained by an interaction of both organellar and host biochemistry directed by the presence of transferred genes. Mechanism: an insect takes up blood contaminated up in salivary gland of the insect, the next time the mammal, it releases the trypanosomes into the. Have interesting genomes in their mitochondria o o. Shaped like a hockey puck with trypanosomes end insect feeds on a mammalian system. Chain mail models (mini circles and macro circles) interconnected.
