How to Produce a Chemical Defense: Structural Elucidation and Anatomical Distribution of Aplysioviolin and Phycoerythrobilin in the Sea Hare Aplysia californica

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1183-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiya Kamio ◽  
Linh Nguyen ◽  
Seymanur Yaldiz ◽  
Charles D. Derby
2011 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1012-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiya Kamio ◽  
Cynthia E. Kicklighter ◽  
Linh Nguyen ◽  
Markus W. Germann ◽  
Charles D. Derby

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Prince ◽  
Paul Micah Johnson

The ultrastructure of the digestive gland of several sea hare species that produce different colored ink (Aplysia californicaproduces purple ink,A. julianawhite ink,A. parvulaboth white and purple ink, whileDolabrifera dolabriferaproduces no ink at all) was compared to determine the digestive gland’s role in the diet-derived ink production process. Rhodoplast digestive cells and their digestive vacuoles, the site of digestion of red algal chloroplast (i.e., rhodoplast) inA. californica, were present and had a similar ultrastructure in all four species. Rhodoplast digestive cell vacuoles either contained a whole rhodoplast or fragments of one or were empty. These results suggest that the inability to produce colored ink in some sea hare species is not due to either an absence of appropriate digestive machinery, that is, rhodoplast digestive cells, or an apparent failure of rhodoplast digestive cells to function. These results also propose that the digestive gland structure described herein occurred early in sea hare evolution, at least in the common ancestor to the generaAplysiaandDolabrifera. Our data, however, do not support the hypothesis that the loss of purple inking is a synapomorphy of the white-ink-producing subgenusAplysia.


1982 ◽  
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pp. 859-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Katayama ◽  
Kazuo Ina ◽  
Hiroshi Nozaki ◽  
Mitsuru Nakayama

Author(s):  
Tayler A. Jarvis ◽  
Thomas R. Capo ◽  
Gretchen K. Bielmyer-Fraser

1971 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Gilbert B. Pauley ◽  
Stuart M. Krassner ◽  
Faylla A. Chapman

2009 ◽  
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pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arman Sheybani ◽  
Matthew Nusnbaum ◽  
John Caprio ◽  
Charles D. Derby

2020 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 295-303
Author(s):  
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Nathália Nocchi ◽  
María L. Souto ◽  
José J. Fernández ◽  
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1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert B. Pauley ◽  
Gale A. Granger ◽  
Stuart M. Krassner
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