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Chloroplast symbiosis in a marine ciliate: ecophysiology and the risks and rewards of hosting foreign organelles

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2012
Simultaneous use of both heterotrophic and autotrophic metabolism (mixotrophy) is common among protists. Strombidium rassoulzadegani is a planktonic mixotrophic marine ciliate that saves chloroplasts from its algal food and obtains a nutritional subsidy
George B Mcmanus, Donald eSchoener, Katharine eHaberlandt   +2 more
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Why mixotrophy flourished in water but rarely on land

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Mixotrophy, the ability to combine photosynthesis with heterotrophic acquisition of carbon or nutrients, is now recognized as a central feature of aquatic microbial food webs and a recurrent strategy in several protist and simple animal lineages.
Albert Calbet
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Partial mycoheterotrophy: a common strategy in arbuscular mycorrhizal plants?

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Proposed autotrophy to mycoheterotrophy continuum among arbuscular mycorrhizal plants. Summary The vast majority of land plants transfer part of the organic carbon they produce by photosynthesis to arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi inside their root cells; the fungi in turn help plants to take up nutrients and water from the soil.
Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, Cas Verbeek, Tomas Figura, Jada Carter, Izai A. B. S. Kikuchi, Franziska E. Zahn, Gerhard Gebauer, Sean W. Graham, Kenji Suetsugu, Deyi Wang   +9 more
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Evaluation of Mixotrophy-Associated Gene Expression in Two Species of Polar Marine Algae

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
Mixotrophic flagellates can comprise significant proportions of plankton biomass in marine ecosystems. Despite the growing recognition of the importance of this ecological strategy, and the identification of major environmental factors controlling ...
Zaid M. McKie-Krisberg, Robert W. Sanders, Rebecca J. Gast   +2 more
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An autumn biodiversity survey on heterotrophic and mixotrophic protists along a coast-to-offshore transect in the Gulf of Naples (Italy)

Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2021
Plankton communities include both unicellular and multicellular organisms. An important unicellular component is represented by those protists (i.e., unicellular eukaryotes) that consume bacteria, other protists, and even small animals.
Gabriele Del Gaizo, Luca Russo, Maria Abagnale, Angela Buondonno, Marta Furia, Simona Saviano, Mauro Vargiu, Fabio Conversano, Francesca Margiotta, Maria Saggiomo, Isabella Percopo, Domenico D'Alelio   +11 more
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Freshwater Biodiversity Research in Brazil: Trends from a Systematic Review and Topic Modeling

International Review of Hydrobiology, Volume 111, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Brazil is a megadiverse country that hosts six major biomes and a vast freshwater network. Despite this richness, research on freshwater biodiversity has been heterogeneous across regions, communities, and time, leaving significant knowledge gaps.
Paula Caroline dos Reis Oliveira, Betina Kozlowsky‐Suzuki, Cleber Cunha Figueredo, Adriana Oliveira Medeiros, Doriedson Ferreira Gomes, Christina W. Castelo Branco, Priscilla Carvalho, Renan de Souza Rezende, Tássia Malacarne, Vivian de Mello de Cionek, Iola Gonçalves Boëchat, Paulo Henrique Costa Corgosinho, Fabrício Barreto Teresa, Rodrigo Assis de Carvalho, Larissa Corteletti da Costa, Lucia Ribeiro Rodrigues, Gustavo Stolzenberg Colares, Louise Cristina Gomes, Fabiana Schneck, Renato Tavares Martins, Thaisa Sala Michelan, Matheus Maximilian Ratz Scoarize, Rosilene Luciana Delariva, Evanilde Benedito, Björn Gücker   +24 more
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More mixotrophy in the marine microbial mix [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Since the turn of the century, the paradigm of the marine microbial assemblage being composed primarily of photoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs is shifting and challenging our understanding of how the microbial diversity contributes to the flow of energy, carbon, and other nutrients in the oceans. In PNAS, Munoz-Marin et al.
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Isolation of an Obligate Mixotrophic Methanogen That Represents the Major Population in Thermophilic Fixed-Bed Anaerobic Digesters

Microorganisms, 2020
Methanothermobacter Met2 is a metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) that encodes a putative mixotrophic methanogen constituting the major populations in thermophilic fixed-bed anaerobic digesters.
Misa Nagoya, Atsushi Kouzuma, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Kazuya Watanabe   +3 more
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Mixotrophy in a Local Strain of Nannochloropsis granulata for Renewable High-Value Biomass Production on the West Coast of Sweden

Marine Drugs, 2022
A local strain of Nannochloropsis granulata (Ng) has been reported as the most productive microalgal strain in terms of both biomass yield and lipid content when cultivated in photobioreactors that simulate the light and temperature conditions during the
Valeria Villanova, Christian Galasso, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Gerardo Della Sala, Johan Engelbrektsson, Niklas Strömberg, Kashif Mohd Shaikh, Mats X. Andersson, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Susanne Ekendahl, Donatella De Pascale, Cornelia Spetea   +11 more
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Changes in photosynthesis and grazing facilitate growth of a mixotrophic protist under ocean acidification and warming

New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 5, Page 2574-2587, September 2026.
Grazing rates of Ochromonas CCMP2951 expressed as carbon obtained per mean cell volume (a) and Caut/het‐photosynthetically fixed carbon divided by carbon obtained through grazing (b) in the four experimental treatments. Summary Mixotrophic protists capable of both photosynthesis and phagotrophy are key members of marine plankton communities.
Shai Slomka, Jolanda M. H. Verspagen, Rocio B. Rodriguez‐Perez, Jef Huisman, Susanne Wilken   +4 more
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