Showing posts with label gene flow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gene flow. Show all posts
Friday, December 30, 2011
Photosynthetic Sea Slug
This sea slug has a symbiotic relationship with algae that has resulted in the ability to manufacture chlorophyll, the chemical required for photosynthesis. By ingesting photosynthetic algae over many generations, it is proposed that some of the algae's genes, most importantly the ones responsible for chlorophyll production, have become incorporated into the genome of Elysia chlorotica.
Read the article bellow for more information:
Green Sea Slug
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