in PNAS

Euglenozoan kleptoplasty illuminates the early evolution of photoendosymbiosis

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220100120

#kleptoplasty #symbiosis

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001857

Very nice overview I recently got to read on #kleptoplasty, the process where animals or other heterotrophes take intact #chloroplasts from #algae and use them to photosynthesise for their own benefit.

Masters of it in the animal kingdom are sacoglossan sea #slugs, such as this Elysia timida pictured beautifully by Lenka Juskanicová