Chloroplast acquisition without the gene transfer in kleptoplastic sea slugs, Plakobranchus ocellatus
T. Maeda, S. Takahashi, T. Yoshida, S. Shimamura, Y. Takaki, Y. Nagai, A. Toyoda, Y. Suzuki, A. Arimoto, H. Ishii, N. Satoh, T. Nishiyama, M. Hasebe, T. Maruyama, J. Minagawa, , S. Shigenobu
This study sequenced the genome of a kleptoplastic sea slug and found no evidence of algal gene transfer to the nucleus, showing photosynthesis can occur without nuclear gene transfer.
bioRxiv · Jun 16, 2020 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology