Sea slug has taken genes from algae it eats, allowing it to photosynthesize like a plant

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time "feeding" on sunlight, like a plant, is clarified in a recent study published in The Biological Bulletin.

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