The photosynthetic sea slug, Plakobranchus ocellatus type black (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

The photosynthetic sea slug, Plakobranchus ocellatus type black

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The photosynthetic sea slug, Plakobranchus ocellatus type black, (left) and an electron micrograph displaying sequestered algal chloroplasts within a sea slug cell (right).

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Taro Maeda

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