#mixotrophs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mixotrophs, aggregated by home.social.
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#Mixotrophs: Neither Plants nor Animals, These Ocean Organisms Protect Their Ecosystems against Heat Waves https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neither-plants-nor-animals-these-ocean-organisms-protect-their-ecosystems/
Widespread #ciliate and #dinoflagellate #mixotrophy may contribute to ecosystem resilience in a #subarctic sea https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/ame/v90/p1-21/ by Suzanne Strom et al.
"these adaptable mixotrophs can be vital to the entire Gulf of Alaska ecosystem in #HeatWaves because they help to mediate a major consequence of marine #warming: increased stratification"
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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.