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Utilization of photosynthetic products of symbiotic chloroplasts in mucus synthesis by Placobranchus ianthobapsus (gould), opisthobranchia, sacoglossa

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Abstract

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    1. About 5–10 per cent of the net 14C photosynthetically fixed by symbiotic chloroplasts in the marine slug Placobranchus ianthobapsus (Gould) was secreted in mucus.

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    2. After acid hydrolysis of mucus, most of the 14C was found in galactose and glucose.

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    Very little is known about the chloroplast symbiosis of P. ocellatus. Most of the limited biochemical and microscopic information has actually come from work done on P. ianthobapsus from Hawaii (see footnote 1) (Greene, 1970a; Greene and Muscatine, 1972; Ireland and Scheuer, 1979; Trench et al., 1970, 1972). However, the transcriptome analysis was done with RNA extracted from a single specimen of P. ocellatus from Guam (Wägele et al., 2011).

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