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Feeding diverse prey as an excellent strategy of mixotrophic dinoflagellates for global dominance.
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- Feeding and growth of the new mixotrophic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium sp. GSTY2405 and the prey spectrum extension of its sister species Gymnodinium smaydae.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Photosynthetic and nutritional plasticity in mixotrophic dinoflagellates: responses to environmental change.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
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- Multiscale Patterns of Bacterial and Protist Diversity Across Red Sea Coral Reefs.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- In Situ Harvesting and Molecular Identification for the Germinating Species Diversity of Dinoflagellate Resting Cysts in Jiaozhou Bay, China.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cobalt exposure induces the specific associated-bacterial microbiome potentially contributing to cobalt stress alleviation of the host dinoflagellate Scrippsiella acuminata.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
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- Broad active metabolic pathways, autophagy, and antagonistic hormones regulate dinoflagellate cyst dormancy in marine sediments.Science advances · 2025Article
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- Herbicide leakage into seawater impacts primary productivity and zooplankton globally.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Microalgae fuel food webs and biogeochemical cycles of key elements in the ocean. What determines microalgal dominance in the ocean is a long-standing question. Red tide distribution data (spanning 1990 to 2019) show that mixotrophic dinoflagellates, capable of photosynthesis and predation together, were responsible for ~40% of the species forming red tides globally. Counterintuitively, the species with low or moderate growth rates but diverse prey including diatoms caused red tides globally. The ability of these dinoflagellates to trade off growth for prey diversity is another genetic factor critical to formation of red tides across diverse ocean conditions. This finding has profound implications for explaining the global dominance of particular microalgae, their key eco-evolutionary strategy, and prediction of harmful red tide outbreaks.
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