Mixotrophy in the Antarctic phytoflagellate, Pyramimonas gelidicola (Chlorophyta:Prasinophyceae)

• Published in: Journal of Phycology
• Main Authors: Bell, Elanor M, Laybourn-Parry, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: MARINE; DYNAMICS; PROTISTS; CRYPTOPHYTES; Marine & Freshwater Biology; PHOTOTROPHS; BACTERIVORY; PHAGOTROPHY; LAKE; THYMIDINE; Plant Sciences; POPULATION; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Vestfold Hills; Vestfold; Ace Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/ff8d11cd-a909-4d50-a82b-c502020df959; https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.02152.x

Grazing by the planktonic phytoflagellate, Pyramimonas gelidicola McFadden (Chlorophyta: Prasinophyta), and heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNAN) in meromictic saline Ace Lake in the Vestfold Hills, eastern Antarctica was investigated in the austral summers of 1997 and 1999. Up to 47% of the P. gelid...