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SYMBIOTIC chloroplasts have been reported in several sacoglossan opisthobranch gastropods1–4. The chloroplasts are acquired while the animals feed suctorially on the cells of certain siphonaceous algae and they eventually become located inside the cells of the tubules of the digestive diverticulum.
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TRENCH, R., SMITH, D. Synthesis of Pigment in Symbiotic Chloroplasts. Nature 227, 196–197 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227196a0
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