Chlorophyll a fluorescence is increasingly being used as a rapid, non-invasive, sensitive
and convenient indicator of photosynthetic performance in marine autotrophs. This review …

Macroalgal pigments can serve as indicators of an environmental stresses due to their
higher accumulation during these conditions. Even though they exhibit protective role, a …

Besides the so-called 'green lineage'of eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms that include
vascular plants, a huge variety of different algal groups exist that also harvest light by means …

Kleptoplasty, the process by which a host organism sequesters and retains algal
chloroplasts, is relatively common in protists. The origin of the plastid varies, as do the length …

Light is a paramount parameter driving photosynthesis. However, excessive irradiance
leads to the formation of reactive oxygen species that cause cell damage and hamper the …

Foraminifera are ubiquitously distributed in marine habitats, playing a major role in marine
sediment carbon sequestration and the nitrogen cycle. They exhibit a wide diversity of …

Some sea slugs sequester chloroplasts from algal food in their intestinal cells and
photosynthesize for months. This phenomenon, kleptoplasty, poses a question of how the …

Several sacoglossan sea slug species feed on macroalgae and incorporate chloroplasts
into tubular cells of their digestive diverticula. We investigated the role of the “stolen” …

Phototrophic organisms need to ensure high photosynthetic performance whilst suppressing
reactive oxygen species (ROS)‐induced stress occurring under excess light conditions. The …

Sacoglossan sea slugs are able to maintain functional chloroplasts inside their own cells,
and mechanisms that allow preservation of the chloroplasts are unknown. We found that the …