Chemical ecology of marine plankton

ER Schwartz, RX Poulin, N Mojib, J Kubanek - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: January 2013 to online publication December 2014 This review summarizes
recent research in the chemical ecology of marine pelagic ecosystems, and aims to provide …

Small bugs with a big impact: linking plankton ecology with ecosystem processes

S Menden-Deuer, T Kiørboe - Journal of Plankton Research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
As an introduction to the following Themed Section on the significance of planktonic
organisms to the functioning of marine ecosystems and global biogeochemical cycles we …

Removal of Waterborne Viruses by Tetrahymena pyriformis Is Virus-Specific and Coincides with Changes in Protist Swimming Speed

M Olive, F Moerman, X Fernandez-Cassi… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biological treatment of waterborne viruses, specifically grazing of viruses by protists, can
enhance microbial water quality while avoiding the production of toxic byproducts and high …

Large Phaeodaria in the twilight zone: Their role in the carbon cycle

MR Stukel, T Biard, J Krause… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in in situ imaging allow enumeration of abundant populations of large Rhizarians
that compose a substantial proportion of total mesozooplankton biovolume. Using a quasi …

Protist impacts on marine cyanovirocell metabolism

C Howard-Varona, S Roux, BP Bowen… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The fate of oceanic carbon and nutrients depends on interactions between viruses,
prokaryotes, and unicellular eukaryotes (protists) in a highly interconnected planktonic food …

Trade-off between fear level induced by predator and infection rate among prey species

D Barman, J Roy, S Alam - Journal of Applied Mathematics and …, 2020 - Springer
In this article, an eco-epidemic predator–prey model has been considered where the
reproduction of susceptible class of prey is assumed to be affected by the induced fear from …

Bloom formation potential in the harmful dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea: clues from movement behaviors and growth characteristics

S Menden-Deuer, AL Montalbano - Harmful Algae, 2015 - Elsevier
We measured the growth rates and swimming behaviors of recently isolated strains of the
dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea to investigate to what degree growth and motility could …

Mixotrophy in the newly described dinoflagellate Yihiella yeosuensis: a small, fast dinoflagellate predator that grows mixotrophically, but not autotrophically

SH Jang, HJ Jeong, JE Kwon, KH Lee - Harmful Algae, 2017 - Elsevier
To investigate tropical roles of the newly described Yihiella yeosuensis (ca. 8 μm in cell
size), one of the smallest phototrophic dinoflagellates in marine ecosystems, its trophic …

Feeding by the newly described mixotrophic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium smaydae: feeding mechanism, prey species, and effect of prey concentration

KH Lee, HJ Jeong, TY Jang, AS Lim, NS Kang… - Journal of experimental …, 2014 - Elsevier
To investigate feeding by the newly described mixotrophic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium
smaydae, we explored the feeding mechanism and the kinds of prey species that G …

Distinctive chemotactic responses of three marine herbivore protists to DMSP and related compounds

Q Güell-Bujons, M Zanoli, I Tuval, A Calbet… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Marine planktonic predator–prey interactions occur in microscale seascapes, where
diffusing chemicals may act either as chemotactic cues that enhance or arrest predation, or …