Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Vaucheria Litorea, Elysia Chlorotica, Hockey Puck

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Key concepts life is stranger then fiction marine slugs aka: solar powered opisthobranchs this marine snail elysia chlorotica kidnaps chloroplast by eating algae. Scientists have shown that once a young slug has slurped its first chloroplast meal from one of its few favored species of vaucheria algae, the slug does not have to eat again for the rest of its life. All it has to do is sunbathe. marine slugs they found in the slugs: 101 chloroplast-encoded gene sequences, 52 nuclear-encoded genes. Trypanosomes are parasites live in insects live in mammals carrier of sleeping sickness. Trypanosomes have interesting genomes in their mitochondria very dense shaped like a hockey puck. 6 chain mail models valency: how many rings are interconnected and the valency can change - density. Gfp it all started in the 1960 when someone performed research with jellyfish aequorea victoria: osamu. Gfp beta barrel protein with a chromophore: three amino acid in the center of the protein.

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