Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities

NC Millette, RJ Gast, JY Luo, HV Moeller… - Journal of Plankton …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phago-mixotrophy, the combination of photoautotrophy and phagotrophy in mixoplankton,
organisms that can combine both trophic strategies, have gained increasing attention over …

Herbicide leakage into seawater impacts primary productivity and zooplankton globally

L Yang, X He, S Ru, Y Zhang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Predicting the magnitude of herbicide impacts on marine primary productivity remains
challenging because the extent of worldwide herbicide pollution in coastal waters and the …

Exploration of resting cysts (stages) and their relevance for possibly HABs-causing species in China

YZ Tang, H Gu, Z Wang, D Liu, Y Wang, D Lu, Z Hu… - Harmful Algae, 2021 - Elsevier
The studies on the species diversity, distribution, environmental implications, and molecular
basis of resting cysts (stages) of dinoflagellates and a few species of other groups …

A combined approach detected novel species diversity and distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in the Yellow Sea, China

X Liu, Y Liu, Z Chai, Z Hu, YZ Tang - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Resting cysts of dinoflagellates seed harmful algal blooms (HABs) and their geographic
expansion, which makes it fundamentally important to obtain comprehensive inventories of …

New plastids, old proteins: repeated endosymbiotic acquisitions in kareniacean dinoflagellates

AMG Novák Vanclová, C Nef, Z Füssy, A Vancl… - EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Dinoflagellates are a diverse group of ecologically significant micro-eukaryotes that can
serve as a model system for plastid symbiogenesis due to their susceptibility to plastid loss …

Prey morphotype and abundance controls plastid retention and bloom dynamics for a mixotrophic dinoflagellate

M Ladds, HM Sosik, CJ Gobler - Limnology and Oceanography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dinophysis is an obligate mixotroph that relies on consumption of the ciliate, Mesodinium
rubrum, to grow and form harmful algal blooms (HABs). In this study, blooms of Dinophysis …

Phytoplankton carbon to chlorophyll a model development: a review

J Gui, J Sun - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The cellular carbon content and chlorophyll a (Chl a) concentration are two of the most
significant indices for assessing phytoplankton biomass. Recording and monitoring these …

Impact of light and nutrient availability on the phagotrophic activity of harmful bloom-forming dinoflagellates

C Mena, M Long, O Lorand, P Malestroit… - Journal of Plankton …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Phagotrophy is a key nutritional mode for many bloom-forming dinoflagellates that can
supplement their carbon and nutrient requirements. However, the environmental drivers and …

[HTML][HTML] Ecophysiology of the kleptoplastidic dinoflagellate Shimiella gracilenta: I. spatiotemporal distribution in Korean coastal waters and growth and ingestion rates

JH Ok, HJ Jeong, HC Kang, SA Park, SH Eom, JH You… - Algae, 2021 - e-algae.org
To explore the ecophysiological characteristics of the kleptoplastidic dinoflagellate Shimiella
gracilenta, we determined its spatiotemporal distribution in Korean coastal waters and …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of mixotrophy in three Karenia species and the prey spectrum of Karenia mikimotoi (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae)

JH Ok, HJ Jeong, AS Lim, HC Kang, JH You, SA Park… - Algae, 2023 - e-algae.org
Exploring mixotrophy of dinoflagellate species is critical to understanding red-tide dynamics
and dinoflagellate evolution. Some species in the dinoflagellate genus Karenia have caused …