ReviewJournal of plankton research
Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities.
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- Warm-core eddy intensifies surface mixotrophic bacterivory and fuels mesopelagic heterotrophic grazing.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Physicochemical Parameters Govern Winter Pelagic Microbial Food Web Dynamics in China's Marginal Seas.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Mixotrophy emerges as an optimal strategy in mature waters of the Amazon River plume.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Microbial community dynamics over large spatial and environmental gradients in a subtropical ocean basin.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
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- Total Nitrogen Shapes Diversity of Bloom-Forming Dinoflagellates in the Baltic Coastal Waters.Biology · 2025Article
- Warming Fluctuations Strengthen the Photo-Phagotrophic Coupling in Mixoplanktonic Protists.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- The immeasurable value of plankton to humanity.Bioscience · 2025Article
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- A multifunctional organelle coordinates phagocytosis and chlorophagy in a marine eukaryote phytoplankton Scyphosphaera apsteinii.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- The microbial phosphorus cycle in aquatic ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
- Array of metabolic pathways in a kleptoplastidic foraminiferan protist supports chemoautotrophy in dark, euxinic seafloor sediments.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Deciphering the key stressors shaping the relative success of core mixoplankton across spatiotemporal scales.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
- Spatio-temporal changes of small protist and free-living bacterial communities in a temperate dimictic lake: insights from metabarcoding and machine learning.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Heterotrophic bacteria trigger transcriptome remodelling in the photosynthetic picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Phago-mixotrophy, the combination of photoautotrophy and phagotrophy in mixoplankton, organisms that can combine both trophic strategies, have gained increasing attention over the past decade. It is now recognized that a substantial number of protistan plankton species engage in phago-mixotrophy to obtain nutrients for growth and reproduction under a range of environmental conditions. Unfortunately, our current understanding of mixoplankton in aquatic systems significantly lags behind our understanding of zooplankton and phytoplankton, limiting our ability to fully comprehend the role of mixoplankton (and phago-mixotrophy) in the plankton food web and biogeochemical cycling. Here, we put forward five research directions that we believe will lead to major advancement in the field: (i) evolution: understanding mixotrophy in the context of the evolutionary transition from phagotrophy to photoautotrophy; (ii) traits and trade-offs: identifying the key traits and trade-offs constraining mixotrophic metabolisms; (iii) biogeography: large-scale patterns of mixoplankton distribution; (iv) biogeochemistry and trophic transfer: understanding mixoplankton as conduits of nutrients and energy; and (v)
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