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Pancreatectomy
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Carbon footprint
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Brood
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Toxic waste
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Local zoning plan
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Valence band
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Yellow dwarf
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Auto-immune diseases
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DECT
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Chromatic aberration
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Totipotency
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Gene gun
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Anti-inflammatory
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Corsican pine
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LPS
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Numbers
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Cryosurgery
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Green flash
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Enteric
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Aplite
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Lipoprotein
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Analgesic
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Old karst
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Vitrification
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Siemens
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Invasive
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Electron transfer chain
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Deforestation
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M81
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Cystectomy
Kleptoplasty
Kleptoplasty occurs when an organism that is a predator of another photosynthetic organism does not digest its chloroplasts but recovers them for its own use.
The stolen plastids are called kleptoplasts, literally " stolen plastid "
This phenomenon has surely played an important role in the acquisition of photosynthesis by numerous taxons over the course of evolution.
The sea slug Elysia chlorotica looks like a dark green leaf. This comes from the fact that it recycles the chloroplasts of its prey (Vaucheria litorea) in its digestive tube. © Mary S. Tyler / PNAS
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