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Identity of the limiting nutrient (N vs. P) affects the competitive success of mixotrophs

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Modeling succession of key resource-harvesting traits of mixotrophic plankton

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Importance of mixotrophic bacterivory can be predicted by light and loss rates

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

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Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs

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

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Building the "perfect beast": modelling mixotrophic plankton

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Quantitative responses of lake phytoplankton to eutrophication in Northern Europe

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

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High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

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