CHLOROPLAST SYMBIOSIS IN A NON-ELYSIID MOLLUSK, COSTASIELLA-LILIANAE MARCUS (HERMAEIDAE, ASCOGLOSSA (=SACOGLOSSA) - EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, LIGHT-INTENSITY, AND STARVATION ON CARBON FIXATION RATE
CHLOROPLAST SYMBIOSIS IN A NON-ELYSIID MOLLUSK, COSTASIELLA-LILIANAE MARCUS (HERMAEIDAE, ASCOGLOSSA (=SACOGLOSSA) - EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, LIGHT-INTENSITY, AND STARVATION ON CARBON FIXATION RATE
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DOI:
10.2307/1540899
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
FERMIN, C
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作者:
CLARK, KB;JENSEN, KR;FERMIN, C
The hermaeid ascoglossan slug C. lilianae possesses functional symbiotic chloroplasts derived from its algal food, Avrainvillea nigricans. Symbiotic plastids continued to fix C after 65 days starvation, although efficiency of fixation declined about 85%. Chlorophyll level did not decline during this period. Degeneration of symbiotic plastids involved swelling and delamination of thylakoids, increase in electron density of plastids and decrease in pyrenoid electron density. Plastids within single cells degenerate at about the same time, suggesting that individual cells phagocytize the entire complement of plastids during a brief period. Temperature strongly influenced C fixation, in rate of net fixation and in production of alcohol-insoluble photosynthates. The optimum temperature for fixation was 25.degree. C. Photosynthetic rate exhibited saturation at about 500 .mu..epsilon. (microeinsteins) .cntdot. m-2 .cntdot. s-1 and substantial fixation occurred at intensities as low as 25 .mu..epsilon. .cntdot. m-2 .cntdot. s-1. No inhibition occurred in full sunlight (1500 .mu..epsilon. .cntdot. m-2 .cntdot. s-1).