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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Kinda:

Costasiella kuroshimae are capable of a physiological process called kleptoplasty, in which they retain the chloroplasts from the algae they feed on. Absorbing the chloroplasts from algae then enables them to indirectly perform photosynthesis.[6]

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Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
And Im pretty sure there are also jellyfish that live in symbyosis with algae that they carry along with them which photosynthesize, creating sugars for the jellyfish.

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- frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Reminds me of Lichen! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen
  
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SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
So vampire photosynthesis.

That’s metal af.

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- CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Or rogue photosynthesis.
  
  Also metal af
  
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IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I mean honestly? If you’re not even keeping full cells from the prey, I think we can give it to them. Lil guy, you can photosynthesize. No need to bother them with the asterisks.

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drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The really interesting thing about costasiella kuroshimae is that its digestive system branches and goes up into all of those ‘leaves’, which is how the algae makes its way there to have its chloroplasts extracted.

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grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

kleptoplasty

I like how it’s appropriate to call it “-plasty” twice (first in the referring to chloroplasts sense, and then again in the plastic surgery sense).

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blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
So it’s MegaMan?

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