Vesa Havurinne
PhD
vesa.havurinne@utu.fi Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 C Turku Office: 6049 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5213-0905 |
Areas of expertise
Algae; biophysics of photosynthesis; diatoms; kleptoplastic sea slugs; photoinhibition; reactive oxygen species
Algae; biophysics of photosynthesis; diatoms; kleptoplastic sea slugs; photoinhibition; reactive oxygen species
Biography
Research
Publications 
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- Laboratory Rearing of the Photosynthetic Sea Slug Elysia crispata (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa): Implications for the Study of Kleptoplasty and Species Conservation (2026)
- Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Loss of state transitions in Bryopsidales macroalgae and kleptoplastic sea slugs (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa) (2025)
- Communications Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Photoprotective mechanisms in Elysia species hosting Acetabularia chloroplasts shed light on host‐donor compatibility in photosynthetic sea slugs (2024)
- Physiologia Plantarum
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prey species and abundance affect growth and photosynthetic performance of the polyphagous sea slug
Elysia crispata (2023)- Royal Society Open Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Differences in susceptibility to photoinhibition do not determine growth rate under moderate light in batch or turbidostat-a study with five green algae (2022)
- Photosynthetica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluation of visible-light wavelengths that reduce or oxidize the plastoquinone pool in green algae with the activated F0 rise method (2022)
- Photosynthetica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Photoprotection and genetic autonomy of plastids in photosynthetic sea slugs (2022) Havurinne Vesa
(G5 Article dissertation ) - Genetic autonomy and low singlet oxygen yield support kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs (2021)
- Journal of Experimental Botany
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ultraviolet screening by slug tissue and tight packing of plastids protect photosynthetic sea slugs from photoinhibition (2021)
- Photosynthesis Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Action spectrum of the redox state of the plastoquinone pool defines its function in plant acclimation (2020)
- Plant Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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