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Leaf sheep, a small sea slug native to the warm tropical waters of southern Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Though they are animals, they indirectly perform photosynthesis in a process called #kleptoplasty, in which they absorb chloroplasts from the algae they eat. Their chemosensory rhinophores look remarkably like the ears of a sheep!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKcuWbTRYuE
via nocturnal-stims
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I'm happy to share this new paper describing long-term kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225002883
#foraminifera #symbiosis #kleptoplasty -
New research on #protists sheds light on #DeepSea energy sources https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/foraminifer/
Array of metabolic pathways in kleptoplastidic #foraminifera supports #chemoautotrophy in dark, euxinic seafloor sediments https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae248/7923457 by Fatma Gomaa et al.
"This species takes up unrelated organism’s #chloroplasts — #organelles that perform #photosynthesis... We know #kleptoplasty is happening here, but we needed to understand why this foraminifer is so successful in the dark, without oxygen"