Many “model” protists are maintained in culture and used, experimentally, to answer
questions associated with planktonic processes. Given the current interest and rapidly …

Protists are major consumers of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the marine
environment, playing a key role in carbon cycling and nutrient regeneration. Consequently …

Heterotrophic dinoflagellates are prevalent protists in marine environments, which play an
important role in the carbon cycling and energy flow in the marine planktonic community …

It is estimated that large numbers of microplastics are present in the marine environment and
their concentrations are expected to rise in a foreseeable future. Interactions, uptake, and …

Histone proteins and the nucleosomal organization of chromatin are near-universal
eukaroytic features, with the exception of dinoflagellates. Previous studies have suggested …

It is often argued that microscopic organisms typically have cosmopolitan distributions. This
argument has been criticized as it fails to acknowledge the many protists that have limited …

Microzooplankton are ecologically important grazers of phytoplankton and bacteria in
aquatic systems. Inhabiting a three-dimensional realm, the ability of a microzooplankter to …

To assess the effects of fluctuating prey availability on predator population dynamics and
grazing impact on phytoplankton, we measured growth and grazing rates of three …

Abstract Background The heterotrophic dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina is increasingly
studied in experimental, ecological and evolutionary contexts. Its basal phylogenetic …

Oxyrrhis marina is an extensively studied morphospecies and a common protist model used
to examine a range of ecological processes. Further, as a result of a number of unusual …