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Mitra, A, Caron, DA, Faure, E, Flynn, KJ, Leles, SG, Hansen, PJ, McManus, GB, Not, F, do Rosario Gomes, H, Santoferrara, LF, Stoecker, DK and Tillmann, U 2023 The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12972
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Abstract/Summary
Protist plankton are major members of open-water marine food webs. Traditionally divided between phototrophic phytoplankton and phagotrophic zooplankton, recent research shows many actually combine phototrophy and phagotrophy in the one cell; these protists are the “mixoplankton.” Under the mixoplankton paradigm, “phytoplankton” are incapable of phagotrophy (diatoms being exemplars), while “zooplankton” are incapable of phototrophy. This revision restructures marine food webs, from regional to global levels. Here, we present the first comprehensive database of marine mixoplankton, bringing together extant knowledge of the identity, allometry, physiology, and trophic interactivity of these organisms. This mixoplankton database (MDB) will aid researchers that confront difficulties in characterizing life traits of protist plankton, and it will benefit modelers needing to better appreciate ecology of these organisms with their complex functional and allometric predator–prey interactions. The MDB also identifies knowledge gaps, including the need to better understand, for different mixoplankton functional types, sources of nutrition (use of nitrate, prey types, and nutritional states), and to obtain vital rates (e.g. growth, photosynthesis, ingestion, factors affecting photo’ vs. phago’ - trophy). It is now possible to revisit and re-classify protistan “phytoplankton” and “zooplankton” in extant databases of plankton life forms so as to clarify their roles in marine ecosystems.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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| Additional Keywords: | Allometry, Biogeography, Metagenomics, Microzooplankton, Mixoplankton, Mixotroph, Phytoplankton, Protist, Symbiosis, Traits, Zooplankton |
| Divisions: | Plymouth Marine Laboratory > Science Areas > Marine System Modelling |
| Depositing User: | S Hawkins |
| Date made live: | 20 Apr 2023 11:39 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 11:40 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9909 |
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