Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now?

Mixotrophic protists display contrasted biogeographies in the global ocean

(2019) Emile Faure et al.   ISME Journal

Environmental drivers of mixotrophs in boreal lakes

(2019) Truls Hveem Hansson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

A guide to methods for estimating phago-mixotrophy in nanophytoplankton

(2019) Beatrix E Beisner et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Sampling bias misrepresents the biogeographical significance of constitutive mixotrophs across global oceans

(2019) Suzana Gonçalves Leles et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mixotrophic phytoplankton dynamics in a shallow Mediterranean water body: how to make a virtue out of necessity

(2018) Luigi Naselli-Flores et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Intraspecific trait variation and trade-offs within and across populations of a toxic dinoflagellate

(2018) Karen M. Brandenburg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

(2018) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Mixotrophy in Chlorophytes and Haptophytes—Effect of Irradiance, Macronutrient, Micronutrient and Vitamin Limitation

(2018) Ruth Anderson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Modelling mixotrophic functional diversity and implications for ecosystem function

(2018) Suzana GonÇalves Leles et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Was the Mitochondrion Necessary to Start Eukaryogenesis?

(2018) Vladimír Hampl et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Biogeography and diversity of Collodaria (Radiolaria) in the global ocean

(2017) Tristan Biard et al.   ISME Journal

The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin

(2017) William F. Martin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance

(2017) S. G. Leles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Introducing mixotrophy into a biogeochemical model describing an eutrophied coastal ecosystem: The Southern North Sea

(2017) Caroline Ghyoot et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Mixotrophic Phytoflagellate Bacterivory Field Measurements Strongly Biased by Standard Approaches: A Case Study

(2017) Ruth Anderson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Dynamics of Sequestered Cryptophyte Nuclei in Mesodinium rubrum during Starvation and Refeeding

(2017) Miran Kim et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales

(2016) K.H. Andersen et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Mixotrophy everywhere on land and in water: the grand écart hypothesis

(2016) Marc-André Selosse et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Margalef revisited: A new phytoplankton mandala incorporating twelve dimensions, including nutritional physiology

(2016) Patricia M. Glibert   HARMFUL ALGAE

Metabolic and physiological changes in Prymnesium parvum when grown under, and grazing on prey of, variable nitrogen:phosphorus stoichiometry

(2016) Veronica M. Lundgren et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Harmful effects of Dinophysis to the ciliate Mesodinium rubrum: Implications for prey capture

(2016) Luiz L. Mafra Jr. et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Global genetic capacity for mixotrophy in marine picocyanobacteria

(2016) Alexis P Yelton et al.   ISME Journal

Influence of lake trophic conditions on the dominant mixotrophic algal assemblages

(2016) Juan F. Saad et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Role of the chloroplasts in the predatory dinoflagellate Karlodinium armiger

(2016) T Berge et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

In situ imaging reveals the biomass of giant protists in the global ocean

(2016) Tristan Biard et al.   NATURE

Mixotrophy stirs up our understanding of marine food webs

(2016) David A. Caron   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies

(2016) Aditee Mitra et al.   PROTIST

Role of the chloroplasts in the predatory dinoflagellate Karlodinium armiger

(2016) T Berge et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Comparative Genomics of a Bacterivorous Green Alga Reveals Evolutionary Causalities and Consequences of Phago-Mixotrophic Mode of Nutrition

(2015) John A. Burns et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Inducible Mixotrophy in the DinoflagellateProrocentrum minimum

(2015) Matthew D. Johnson   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Acclimation, adaptation, traits and trade-offs in plankton functional type models: reconciling terminology for biology and modelling

(2015) Kevin J. Flynn et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Flexible phytoplankton functional type (FlexPFT) model: size-scaling of traits and optimal growth

(2015) S. Lan Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

When the lights go out: the evolutionary fate of free-living colorless green algae

(2015) Francisco Figueroa-Martinez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The microbial carbon pump concept: Potential biogeochemical significance in the globally changing ocean

(2015) Louis Legendre et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus and the ocean’s biological pump

(2015) Jefferson T. Turner   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Single-cell transcriptomics for microbial eukaryotes

(2014) Martin Kolisko et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

De Novo Transcriptomes of a Mixotrophic and a Heterotrophic Ciliate from Marine Plankton

(2014) Luciana F. Santoferrara et al.   PLoS One

Bridging the gap between marine biogeochemical and fisheries sciences; configuring the zooplankton link

(2014) Aditee Mitra et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The Eukaryotic Tree of Life from a Global Phylogenomic Perspective

(2014) F. Burki   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Successful strategies in size structured mixotrophic food webs

(2013) Selina Våge et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

From archaeon to eukaryote: the evolutionary dark ages of the eukaryotic cell

(2013) Joran Martijn et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Heterotrophic growth of Neochloris oleoabundans using glucose as a carbon source

(2013) Daniela Morales-Sánchez et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Molecular transformation and degradation of refractory dissolved organic matter in the Atlantic and Southern Ocean

(2013) Oliver J. Lechtenfeld et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

(2013) Vivek K. Arora et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities

(2013) Elena Litchman et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Single-Cell DNA Barcoding Using Sequences from the Small Subunit rRNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer Region Identifies New Species of Trichonympha and Trichomitopsis from the Hindgut of the Termite Zootermopsis angusticollis

(2013) Vera Tai et al.   PLoS One

Cutting the Canopy to Defeat the “Selfish Gene”; Conflicting Selection Pressures for the Integration of Phototrophy in Mixotrophic Protists

(2013) Kevin J. Flynn et al.   PROTIST

In situinteractions between photosynthetic picoeukaryotes and bacterioplankton in the Atlantic Ocean: evidence for mixotrophy

(2013) Manuela Hartmann et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Influence of inorganic nutrients, irradiance, and time of day on food uptake by the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Neoceratium furca

(2012) GW Smalley et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Mixotrophic organisms become more heterotrophic with rising temperature

(2012) Susanne Wilken et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Misuse of the phytoplankton–zooplankton dichotomy: the need to assign organisms as mixotrophs within plankton functional types

(2012) Kevin J. Flynn et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Intraspecific variability in the response of bloom-forming marine microalgae to changed climate conditions

(2012) Anke Kremp et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs

(2011) Ben A. Ward et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Renewable biomass production by mixotrophic algae in the presence of various carbon sources and wastewaters

(2011) Ashish Bhatnagar et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Microbial metatranscriptomics in a permanent marine oxygen minimum zone

(2011) Frank J. Stewart et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Role of mixotrophy and light for growth and survival of the toxic haptophyte Prymnesium parvum

(2011) Andreas Brutemark et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Intraspecific variability in Karlodinium veneficum: Growth rates, mixotrophy, and lipid composition

(2011) Albert Calbet et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Alternative Nutritional Strategies in Protists: Symposium Introduction and a Review of Freshwater Protists that Combine Photosynthesis and Heterotrophy1

(2011) ROBERT W. SANDERS   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

The Role of Photosynthesis and Food Uptake for the Growth of Marine Mixotrophic Dinoflagellates1

(2011) PER JUEL HANSEN   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSES REVEAL DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS BETWEEN THE LIFE-CYCLE STAGES OF EMILIANIA HUXLEYI (HAPTOPHYTA) AND REFLECT SPECIALIZATION TO DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL NICHES1

(2011) Sebastian D. Rokitta et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Molecular Phylogeny and Morphological Evolution of the Acantharia (Radiolaria)

(2011) Johan Decelle et al.   PROTIST

Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean

(2010) Nianzhi Jiao et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Growth, feeding and ecological roles of the mixotrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates in marine planktonic food webs

(2010) Hae Jin Jeong et al.   Ocean Science Journal

Acquired phototrophy in aquatic protists

(2009) DK Stoecker et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The origins of phagocytosis and eukaryogenesis

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Biology Direct

Biomass and lipid productivities of Chlorella vulgaris under autotrophic, heterotrophic and mixotrophic growth conditions

(2009) Yanna Liang et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Contribution of phagotrophy versus autotrophy to Prymnesium parvum growth under nitrogen and phosphorus sufficiency and deficiency

(2009) Wanderson F. Carvalho et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

PHENOTYPIC VARIATION AND GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY IN A PLANKTONIC POPULATION OF THE TOXIGENIC MARINE DINOFLAGELLATE ALEXANDRIUM TAMARENSE (DINOPHYCEAE)1

(2009) Tilman J. Alpermann et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Building the "perfect beast": modelling mixotrophic plankton

(2009) K. J. Flynn et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton

(2008) Elena Litchman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Mixotrophy, a major mode of nutrition for harmful algal species in eutrophic waters

(2008) JoAnn M. Burkholder et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Harmful algal blooms of allelopathic microalgal species: The role of eutrophication

(2008) Edna Granéli et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

The microbial loop – 25 years later

(2008) Tom Fenchel   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

(2008) Mikhail V. Zubkov et al.   NATURE

Feeding mechanism, prey specificity and growth in light and dark of the plastidic dinoflagellate Karlodinium armiger

(2007) T Berge et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Prey size spectrum and bioenergetics of the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Karlodinium armiger

(2007) T Berge et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY