Adaptive significance of light and food for a kleptoplastic sea slug: implications for photosynthesis.
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DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04779-6
Abstract: Sacoglossan sea slugs can 'steal' chloroplasts from their algal food and use them for photosynthesis (kleptoplasty). Although it has been shown that light has positive effects on survival and body size retention of some sacoglossans… read more here.
Keywords: positive effects; sea; light food; fitness components ... See more keywords