Mixotrophy in Arctic Protists – Alternative Nutritional Strategies

• Main Author: Rebecca Gast
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2014
• Subjects: Arctic Research Initiative, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean and Climate Change Institute; Arctic; Canada; Beaufort Sea; canada basin; Climate change
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:ae25a1c7-baa9-4d76-9bab-381973e7f8e1

Planktonic protists have traditionally been categorized based on their modes of energy and carbon acquisition as either phototrophic (algal) or heterotrophic. However, mixotrophy, the combination of phototrophy and heterotrophy within the same individual, is widespread in oceanic systems, but neithe...