New Sea Slug discovered?
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Topic: New Sea Slug discovered?
Posted By: Mike Savage
Subject: New Sea Slug discovered?
Date Posted: January 12 2010 at 9:16pm
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A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It's the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100112/sc_livescience/surprisingseaslugishalfplanthalfanimal - http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100112/sc_livescience/surprisingseaslugishalfplanthalfanimal
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Posted By: beller
Date Posted: January 12 2010 at 10:05pm
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Hey mike I would like one of these do you know were I could get one. ------------- I love fish I want them all. |
Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: January 12 2010 at 10:29pm
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I think the closest you'll get to one of these in LFS is a lettuce leaf nudibranch ------------- Steve http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40637&PID=356246" rel="nofollow - My Old 180G Mixed Reef Currently: 120G Wavefront Mixed 29G Seahorse & Softies Running ReefAngel Plus x2 435-8 |
Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: January 12 2010 at 10:33pm
| The sea nevers ceases to amaze! Thanks Mike! |
Posted By: Spbeyond
Date Posted: January 12 2010 at 11:44pm
LOL they just discovered there existence... ------------- 90 Gallon Reef w/4 bulb 54W t5 I buy, sell and restore pinball machines. Got one in the basement? ;) |
beller wrote:Posted By: Tresa
Date Posted: January 13 2010 at 8:03am
| Thats amazing! Thank you for posting that Mike.... |
Posted By: beller
Date Posted: January 13 2010 at 8:32am
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so I still want one. ------------- I love fish I want them all. |
Posted By: dew2loud1
Date Posted: January 13 2010 at 10:02am
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Thats awesome, i know many nudibranchs are capable of Zooxanthellal use once its in their cerci, they look very similar to berghia. But actually being able to incorporate genetics and acquiring chloroplasts is amazing. I can already hear it now, isolate the mechanism that allows this, inject it into us and then everytime we eat veggies we get chloroplasts and can then photosynthesize from the sun. Talk about being "GREEN", now who is first to try it? |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: January 13 2010 at 1:16pm
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These are cold water species.
Part animal part plant.
 But using the gene and passing it on?
This is a little different than coral and their zooxanthellae. Coral continuously export and import their zooxanthellae. It's especially noticable when they bleach and then regain color. Often the color is different than the original and sometimes it's the same color as another coral in the aquarium. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: GUNDLR
Date Posted: January 13 2010 at 1:18pm
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WAY COOL, ILL VOLUNTEER..... I got nothing to lose
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: January 13 2010 at 5:16pm
It would be fascinating to study them!
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