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Modeling Unveils How Kleptoplastidy Affects Mixotrophy Boosting Algal Blooms.
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Kleptoplastidy is a nutrition mode in which cells of protists and some multicellular organisms acquire, maintain, and exploit chloroplasts of prey algae cells as photosynthesis reactors. It is an important aspect of the mixotrophic feeding strategy, which plays a role in the formation of harmful algae blooms (HABs). We developed a new mathematical model, in which kleptoplastidy is regarded as a mechanism of enhancing mixotrophy of protists. The model is constructed using three thought (theoretical) experiments and the concept of biological time. We propose to measure the contribution of kleptoplastidy to mixotrophy using a new ecological indicator: the kleptoplastidy index. This index is a function of two dimensionless variables, one representing the ratio of photosynthetic production of acquired chloroplasts versus native chloroplasts, and the other representing the balance between autotrophic and heterotrophic feeding modes. The index is tested by data for the globally distributed, bloom-forming potentially toxic mixotrophic dinoflagellates
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