Mixotrophs are important components of the bacterioplankton, phytoplankton,
microzooplankton, and (sometimes) zooplankton in coastal and oceanic waters. Bacterivory …

BACKGROUND Marine ecosystems are composed of a diverse array of life forms, the
majority of which are unicellular—archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. The power of these …

Biological dinitrogen (N 2) fixation is a key metabolic process exclusively performed by
prokaryotes, some of which are symbiotic with eukaryotes. Species of the marine haptophyte …

Arranging organisms into functional groups aids ecological research by grou** organisms
(irrespective of phylogenetic origin) that interact with environmental factors in similar ways …

In this work, they compared patterns of abundant and rare picoeukaryotic sub‐communities
in the epipelagic waters (surface and 40–75 m depth subsurface layers) of the East and …

The development and integration of DNA-based methods in research and clinical
microbiology laboratories have enabled standardised and comprehensive detection and …

Phago-mixotrophy, the combination of photoautotrophy and phagotrophy in mixoplankton,
organisms that can combine both trophic strategies, have gained increasing attention over …

There is increasing awareness that many terrestrial and aquatic organisms are not strictly
heterotrophic or autotrophic but rather mixotrophic. Mixotrophy is an intermediate nutritional …

Photosynthetic eukaryotes have a critical role as the main producers in most ecosystems of
the biosphere. The ongoing environmental metabarcoding revolution opens the perspective …

Microbial eukaryotes are key components of the ocean plankton. Yet, our understanding of
their community composition and activity in different water layers of the ocean is limited …