There is increasing awareness that many terrestrial and aquatic organisms are not strictly
heterotrophic or autotrophic but rather mixotrophic. Mixotrophy is an intermediate nutritional …

The origin of plastids (chloroplasts) by endosymbiosis stands as one of the most important
events in the history of eukaryotic life. The genetic, biochemical, and cell biological …

In modern oceans, eukaryotic phytoplankton is dominated by lineages with red algal-derived
plastids such as diatoms, dinoflagellates, and coccolithophores. Despite the ecological …

Rhodophyta (red algae) is one of three lineages of Archaeplastida, a supergroup that is
united by the primary endosymbiotic origin of plastids in eukaryotes,. Red algae are a …

Grazing rate estimates indicate that approximately half of the bacterivory in oligotrophic
oceans is due to mixotrophic flagellates (MFs). However, most estimations have considered …

How mitochondria came to reside within the cytosol of their host has been debated for 50
years. Though current data indicate that the last eukaryote common ancestor possessed …

Small eukaryotic phytoplankton are major contributors to global primary production and
marine biogeochemical cycles. Many taxa are thought to be mixotrophic, but quantitative …

Photosynthetic picoeukaryotes (PPE) are recognized as major primary producers and
contributors to phytoplankton biomass in oceanic and coastal environments. Molecular …

With the current explosion of genomic data, there is a greater need to draw inference on
phenotypic information based on DNA sequence alone. We considered complete genomes …

While algal phago-mixotrophs play a major role in aquatic microbial food webs, their
diversity remains poorly understood. Recent studies have indicated several species of …