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Monday, November 24, 2008
  Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes

I've been wanting to say this all day for some reason, and this seems as good a reason as any:

Fuck YEAH!

Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous leaf-shaped body, that lives along the Atlantic seaboard of the US. What sets it apart from most other sea slugs is its ability to run on solar power.

Mary Rumpho of the University of Maine, is an expert on E. chlorotica and has now discovered how the sea slug gets this ability: it photosynthesises with genes "stolen" from the algae it eats.
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