"Pierce’s slug...takes just parts of cells, the little green photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts, from the algae it eats." "Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body..." "Even unhatched sea slugs, which have never encountered algae, carry “algal” photosynthetic genes."http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/green-sea-slug/
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