It is indeed fascinating, however, the fact that Elysia species are using
photosynthesis is known already for more than 40 years and numerous
publications appeared about it in the late sixties-early seventies.
Best regards,

Henk Mienis

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From: "Doug Stemke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [CONCH-L] Photosynthetic 'Sea Slugs'


>
> I just wanted to post this to the list.  It is quite fascinating:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100112/sc_livescience/surprisingseaslugishalfplanthalfanimal
>
> So not only do nudibranchs steal nematocysts cells to protect them from
> their last meal to protect them from predators, now we see that at least
> one
> species is truly photosynthetic? Pretty neat.
>
> Doug
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