Organism Interactions
Symbiosis: Commensalism
"An interaction between two animal or plant species that habitually live together in which one species (the commensal) benefits from the association while the other is not significantly affected." - Dictionary of Biology, Oxford Univ. Press
Lettuce Sea Slug (Elysia crispata) houses the choroplasts it acquires from its algae food in the folds on its dorsal surface.
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