ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023
Trophic strategies explain the ocean niches of small eukaryotic phytoplankton.
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- Changes in photosynthesis and grazing facilitate growth of a mixotrophic protist under ocean acidification and warming.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Balancing photosynthesis and respiration in North Pacific protist communities.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Warming Fluctuations Strengthen the Photo-Phagotrophic Coupling in Mixoplanktonic Protists.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Latitude- and depth-driven divergence in protist trophic strategies revealed by a machine learning model.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Shifting phytoplankton ecological strategies along a continuum of tidewater glacier retreat.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Do trophic strategies shape biogeography and environmental niches? Marine dinoflagellates as a case study.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Predicting optimal mixotrophic metabolic strategies in the global ocean.Science advances · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Preferred Niche of Small Eukaryotes with Mixotrophic Potentials in the Global Ocean.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Micromonas, a small pigmented flagellate, predominates the nanoflagellate and photosynthetic picoeukaryote communities in the northern South China Sea.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Transcriptomics reveal a unique phago-mixotrophic response to low nutrient concentrations in the prasinophyteISME communications · 2024Article
- Trophic strategies explain the ocean niches of small eukaryotic phytoplankton.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
A large fraction of marine primary production is performed by diverse small protists, and many of these phytoplankton are phagotrophic mixotrophs that vary widely in their capacity to consume bacterial prey. Prior analyses suggest that mixotrophic protists as a group vary in importance across ocean environments, but the mechanisms leading to broad functional diversity among mixotrophs, and the biogeochemical consequences of this, are less clear. Here we use isolates from seven major taxa to demonstrate a tradeoff between phototrophic performance (growth in the absence of prey) and phagotrophic performance (clearance rate when consuming
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