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

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

(2016) Tristan Biard et al.   NATURE

The elusive predisposition to mycoheterotrophy in Ericaceae

(2016) Félix Lallemand et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional biology of parasitic plants: a review

(2016) Jakub Těšitel   Plant Ecology and Evolution

Marine mixotrophy increases trophic transfer efficiency, mean organism size, and vertical carbon flux

(2016) Ben A. Ward et al.   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

Implications of mutation of organelle genomes for organelle function and evolution

(2015) John A. Raven   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists

(2015) Annegret Kohler et al.   NATURE GENETICS

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

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

From mycoheterotrophy to mutualism: mycorrhizal specificity and functioning inOphioglossum vulgatumsporophytes

(2015) Katie J. Field et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future

(2015) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

(2015) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

Species-dependent partitioning of C and N stable isotopes between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their C3 and C4 hosts

(2015) Pierre-Emmanuel Courty et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Phagotrophy by the picoeukaryotic green alga Micromonas: implications for Arctic Oceans

(2014) Zaid M McKie-Krisberg et al.   ISME Journal

Photosynthesis in perennial mixotrophicEpipactisspp. (Orchidaceae) contributes more to shoot and fruit biomass than to hypogeous survival

(2014) Cédric Gonneau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Brandtodiniumgen. nov. andB. nutriculacomb. Nov. (Dinophyceae), a dinoflagellate commonly found in symbiosis with polycystine radiolarians

(2014) Ian Probert et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Investigating the Path of Plastid Genome Degradation in an Early-Transitional Clade of Heterotrophic Orchids, and Implications for Heterotrophic Angiosperms

(2014) Craig F. Barrett et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The danger of mycorrhizal traps?

(2014) Thomas W. Kuyper et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nutritional regulation in mixotrophic plants: new insights from Limodorum abortivum

(2014) Alessandro Bellino et al.   OECOLOGIA

Using the concentration-dependence of respiration arising from glucose addition to estimate in situ concentrations of labile carbon in grassland soil

(2014) Johannes Rousk et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Do chlorophyllous orchids heterotrophically use mycorrhizal fungal carbon?

(2014) Marc-André Selosse et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The chimerical and multifaceted marine acoel Symsagittifera roscoffensis: from photosymbiosis to brain regeneration

(2014) Xavier Bailly et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Phylogeny and origins of holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae

(2013) J. R. McNeal et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A Modern Descendant of Early Green Algal Phagotrophs

(2013) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Why do mixotrophic plants stay green? A comparison between green and achlorophyllous orchid individuals in situ

(2013) M. Roy et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Goldacre Review: The mixotrophic nature of photosynthetic plants

(2013) Susanne Schmidt et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Mixotrophic haptophytes are key bacterial grazers in oligotrophic coastal waters

(2013) Fernando Unrein et al.   ISME Journal

Carbon availability triggers the decomposition of plant litter and assimilation of nitrogen by an ectomycorrhizal fungus

(2013) F Rineau et al.   ISME Journal

A global perspective on marine photosynthetic picoeukaryote community structure

(2013) Amy R Kirkham et al.   ISME Journal

Crawling leaves: photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs

(2013) Sónia Cruz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plastid genome evolution across the genus Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae): two clades within subgenus Grammica exhibit extensive gene loss

(2013) Thomas Braukmann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

(2013) Manuela Hartmann et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Seasonal and environmental changes of mycorrhizal associations and heterotrophy levels in mixotrophic Pyrola japonica (Ericaceae) growing under different light environments

(2012) Y. Matsuda et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The role of multiple partners in a digestive mutualism with a protocarnivorous plant

(2012) Aline Hiroko Nishi et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF HETEROTROPHY IN A GREEN ALGA

(2012) Graham Bell   EVOLUTION

Marine microalgae attack and feed on metazoans

(2012) Terje Berge et al.   ISME Journal

The effects of changing climate on microzooplankton grazing and community structure: drivers, predictions and knowledge gaps

(2012) David A. Caron et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

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

Mycoheterotrophic germination of Pyrola asarifolia dust seeds reveals convergences with germination in orchids

(2012) Yasushi Hashimoto et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resource limitation and the role of a hemiparasite on a restored prairie

(2012) Victoria A. Borowicz et al.   OECOLOGIA

Endocytotic uptake of nutrients in carnivorous plants

(2012) Wolfram Adlassnig et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Mixotrophic basis of Atlantic oligotrophic ecosystems

(2012) M. Hartmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes

(2012) D. Floudas et al.   SCIENCE

Endophytic Insect-Parasitic Fungi Translocate Nitrogen Directly from Insects to Plants

(2012) S. W. Behie et al.   SCIENCE

Isotopic evidence in adult oak trees of a mixotrophic lifestyle during spring reactivation

(2012) Nathalie Bréda et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mycorrhizal networks: Mechanisms, ecology and modelling

(2012) Suzanne W. Simard et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Organic nutrient uptake by mycorrhizal fungi enhances ecosystem carbon storage: a model-based assessment

(2011) Kate H. Orwin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The ecophysiology and bloom dynamics of Prymnesium spp.

(2011) Edna Granéli et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

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

The role of heterotrophic carbon acquisition by the hemiparasitic plant Rhinanthus alectorolophus in seedling establishment in natural communities: a physiological perspective

(2011) Jakub Těšitel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The evolutionary ecology of dust seeds

(2011) Ove Eriksson et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism in Mycorrhizal Networks and Mycoheterotrophic Plants of Tropical Forests: A Stable Isotope Analysis

(2011) P.-E. Courty et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Attack on all fronts: functional relationships between aerial and root parasitic plants and their woody hosts and consequences for ecosystems

(2011) T. L. Bell et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Feeding by the Newly Described Mixotrophic DinoflagellateParagymnodinium shiwhaense: Feeding Mechanism, Prey Species, and Effect of Prey Concentration

(2010) YEONG DU YOO et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Modelling mixotrophy in harmful algal blooms: More or less the sum of the parts?

(2010) Aditee Mitra et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Transcriptomic Evidence That Longevity of Acquired Plastids in the Photosynthetic Slugs Elysia timida and Plakobranchus ocellatus Does Not Entail Lateral Transfer of Algal Nuclear Genes

(2010) H. Wagele et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

15N and 13C natural abundance of two mycoheterotrophic and a putative partially mycoheterotrophic species associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2010) Vincent Merckx et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Turning the Table: Plants Consume Microbes as a Source of Nutrients

(2010) Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne et al.   PLoS One

Plant-ants feed their host plant, but above all a fungal symbiont to recycle nitrogen

(2010) E. Defossez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Irradiance governs exploitation of fungi: fine-tuning of carbon gain by two partially myco-heterotrophic orchids

(2010) K. Preiss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of parasitism in plants

(2010) James H. Westwood et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

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

Mixotrophy: a widespread and important ecological strategy for planktonic and sea-ice nanoflagellates in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

(2009) S Moorthi et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Acquired phototrophy in aquatic protists

(2009) DK Stoecker et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Experiments on Mixotrophic Protists and Catastrophic Darkness

(2009) Harriet Jones et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory

(2009) MARK W. CHASE et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Sulfur assimilation byOxyrrhis marinafeeding on a35S-DMSP-labelled prey

(2009) Violeta Saló et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally13C enriched compared with leaves in C3plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses

(2009) Lucas A. Cernusak et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Parasitic plants as facilitators: more Dryad than Dracula?

(2009) David M. Watson   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Energetics and the evolution of carnivorous plants—Darwin's ‘most wonderful plants in the world’

(2009) Aaron M. Ellison et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Phagotrophy in the origins of photosynthesis in eukaryotes and as a complementary mode of nutrition in phototrophs: relation to Darwin's insectivorous plants

(2009) J. A. Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Building the "perfect beast": modelling mixotrophic plankton

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

Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

(2009) Emmanuel Defossez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Uptake of organic nitrogen by plants

(2009) Torgny Näsholm et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Pitcher Plant Sarracenia purpurea Can Directly Acquire Organic Nitrogen and Short-Circuit the Inorganic Nitrogen Cycle

(2009) Jim D. Karagatzides et al.   PLoS One

Extreme diversity in noncalcifying haptophytes explains a major pigment paradox in open oceans

(2009) H. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Green plants that feed on fungi: facts and questions about mixotrophy

(2009) Marc-André Selosse et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Use of stable isotope-labelled cells to identify active grazers of picocyanobacteria in ocean surface waters

(2008) Jorge Frias-Lopez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Photosynthetic symbioses in animals

(2008) A.A. Venn et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

(2008) Mikhail V. Zubkov et al.   NATURE

Targeted distribution of photo-assimilate in Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth parasitic on Sorghum bicolor L.

(2008) Beatriz Santos-Izquierdo et al.   Phytochemistry Letters

Parasitic plants—impacts on nutrient cycling

(2008) Helen M. Quested   PLANT AND SOIL

Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica

(2008) M. E. Rumpho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plants can use protein as a nitrogen source without assistance from other organisms

(2008) C. Paungfoo-Lonhienne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbon and nitrogen parasitism by a xylem-tapping mistletoe (Tapinanthus oleifolius) along the Kalahari Transect: a stable isotope study

(2007) Lixin Wang et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY