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Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ocean-microbes-diet-sources.html Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01250-5

Organisms that use a mix of strategies to provide #carbon are known as #mixotrophs. Most marine #plankton are mixotrophs. #Prochlorococcus may be more of a #mixotroph than it lets on. The #microbe may get as much as one-third of its carbon through consuming the dissolved remains of other dead #microbes.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ocean-microbes-diet-sources.html Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01250-5

Organisms that use a mix of strategies to provide #carbon are known as #mixotrophs. Most marine #plankton are mixotrophs. #Prochlorococcus may be more of a #mixotroph than it lets on. The #microbe may get as much as one-third of its carbon through consuming the dissolved remains of other dead #microbes.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ocean-microbes-diet-sources.html Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01250-5

Organisms that use a mix of strategies to provide #carbon are known as #mixotrophs. Most marine #plankton are mixotrophs. #Prochlorococcus may be more of a #mixotroph than it lets on. The #microbe may get as much as one-third of its carbon through consuming the dissolved remains of other dead #microbes.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ocean-microbes-diet-sources.html Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01250-5

Organisms that use a mix of strategies to provide #carbon are known as #mixotrophs. Most marine #plankton are mixotrophs. #Prochlorococcus may be more of a #mixotroph than it lets on. The #microbe may get as much as one-third of its carbon through consuming the dissolved remains of other dead #microbes.