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Some nudibranch species ingest parts of algae and use them for energy production. Researchers see this as an evolutionary phenomenon and call it a natural solar panel.
This Sea Slug Becomes Solar-Powered When It Eats Algae
Somewhere between salad and an alien lies the lettuce sea slug, or Elysia crispata, a creature that eats algae and steals its powers. This odd marine…thing has evolved the truly bonkers ability to steal chloroplasts from the algae it munches on, keeps them alive, and uses them to photosynthesize. It’s a slug that converts sunshine into food like a plant. Researchers have known about these photosynthetic slugs for a while, but how they did it rem…
The slug marins Elysia crispata obtains its energy by eating algae, but not only for a food issue: the gut of the slug separates the photointhetizing organelles from the algae, called chloroplasts, and uses them in their back as small solar panels, taking advantage of the energy of sunlight in the same way that algae do.
Solar-Powered Slug Steals Chloroplasts and Stores Them for Emergency Food – Monkey Viral
This Solar-Powered Slug Steals Photosynthetic Machinery for Emergency Food A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid for food in times of need By Humberto Basilio & Nature magazine Sea slugs in the genus Elysia are bright green because they store chloroplasts, […]
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