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publications and linksLAB PUBLICATIONS Rumpho ME, JR Manhart, FP Dastoor and J Lee 2006 The Kleptoplast. In: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration – The Structure and Function of Plastids. RR Wise and JK Hoober, eds, Springer Pub., Vol. 23 (in press) Lee J, ME Rumpho and JR Manhart. Complete sequence and phylogenetic implications of the chloroplast genome of the chromophytic alga Vaucheria litorea. (in preparation Summer 2006) Rumpho ME, S Pochareddy, FP Dastoor, JR Manhart and EJ Summer. Cloning of a phosphoribulokinase gene from the heterokont alga Vaucheria litorea (Xanthophyta) and detection of two prk gene fragments in the kleptoplastic sea slug Elysia chlorotica (Mollusca). (submitted to Journal of Phycology, June 2006) Green BJ, TC Fox, JR Manhart and ME Rumpho 2005 Stability of isolated chromophytic algal chloroplasts that participate in a unique molluscan/algal endosymbiosis. Symbiosis 40:31-40 Rumpho ME, E Summer, B Green, T Fox and J Manhart 2001 Mollusc/algal chloroplast symbiosis: How can isolated chloroplasts continue to function for months in the cytosol of a sea slug in the absence of an algal nucleus? Zoology 104:303-312 Rumpho ME and JR Manhart 2001 Elysia chlorotica and Vaucheria litorea: Symbiosis between a mollusc and algal plastids produces solar-powered sea slugs. ISS Symbiosis International, Vol. 1, No. 2 Rumpho ME, JR Manhart and EJ Summer 2000 Solar-Powered Sea Slugs. Mollusc/algal chloroplast symbiosis. Plant Physiology 123:29-38 Green BJ, W-y Li, JR Manhart, TC Fox, EJ Summer, RA Kennedy, SK Pierce and ME Rumpho 2000 Mollusc-algal chloroplast endosymbiosis: photosynthesis, thylakoid protein maintenance, and chloroplast gene expression continue for many months in the absence of the algal nucleus. Plant Physiology 124:331-342 http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/abstract/124/1/331 Pierce SK, TK Maugel, ME Rumpho, JJ Hanten and WL Mondy 1999 Annual viral expression in a sea slug population: Life cycle control and symbiotic chloroplast maintenance. Biological Bulletin 197:1-6 Mujer CV, DL Andrews, JR Manhart, SK Pierce and ME Rumpho 1996 Chloroplast genes are expressed during intracellular symbiotic association of Vaucheria litorea plastids with the sea slug Elysia chlorotica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:12333-12338 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/93/22/12333.pdf Pierce SK, RW Biron and ME Rumpho 1996 Endosymbiotic chloroplasts in molluscan cells contain proteins synthesized after plastid capture. Journal of Experimental Biology 199:2323-2330 Rumpho ME, CV Mujer, DL Andrews, JR Manhart and SK Pierce 1994 Extraction of DNA from mucilaginous tissues of a sea slug (Elysia chlorotica). BioTechniques 17:1097-1101 OTHER REFERENCES Douglas, AE 1994 Symbiotic Interactions. Oxford Science Publications, Oxford.148 pp. LINKS University of Maine http://www.umaine.edu/ Sea Slug Forum http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=solarpow International Symbiosis Society http://people.bu.edu/iss/ 5th ISS Congress, Vienna Austria, August 2006 http://www.univie.ac.at/marine-biology/iss2006/htm/ American Society of Plant Biologists http://www.aspb.org/aboutus/ American Society of Plant Biologists’ Education Foundation http://www.aspb.org/education/foundation/index.cfm
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