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Probing the evolution, ecology and physiology of marine protists using transcriptomics - Nature
Mixotrophic protists include phototrophic species that also consume prey, and heterotrophic species that retain functional chloroplasts from their prey (kleptoplastidic ciliates, ...
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Heterotrophic and mixotrophic nanoflagellates in a mesotrophic lake: Abundance and grazing impacts across season and depth Abundance and grazing impacts across season ... - JSTOR
Mixotrophic protists in marine and freshwater ecosystems. J. Protozool. 38: 76–81. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1991.tb04805.x. Sanders, R. W., and K. G. Porter. 1986. Use of metabolic inhibitors to ...
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Plasticity in the grazing ecophysiology of Florenciella (Dichtyochophyceae), a mixotrophic nanoflagellate that consumes Prochlorococcus and other bacteria on JSTOR
Qian Li, Kyle F. Edwards, Christopher R. Schvarcz, Karen E. Selph, Grieg F. Steward, Plasticity in the grazing ecophysiology of Florenciella (Dichtyochophyceae), a mixotrophic nanoflagellate that ...
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A marine microbe can be a biological weapon against climate change
Scientists reported in their paper that “this is especially true for mixotrophic protists, who can perform photosynthesis and consume other organisms simultaneously”.