Plant are not animals and animals are not plants, right? Wrong! Tiny creatures in the ocean can be both at once

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Plant are not animals and animals are not plants, right? Wrong! Tiny creatures in the ocean can be both at once. / Glibert, Patricia M.; Mitra, Aditee; Flynn, Kevin J.; Hansen, Per Juel; Jeong, Hae Jin; Stoecker, Diane.

In: Frontiers for Young Minds, Vol. 7, 48, 2019.

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Harvard

Glibert, PM, Mitra, A, Flynn, KJ, Hansen, PJ, Jeong, HJ & Stoecker, D 2019, 'Plant are not animals and animals are not plants, right? Wrong! Tiny creatures in the ocean can be both at once', Frontiers for Young Minds, vol. 7, 48. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2019.00048

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Glibert, P. M., Mitra, A., Flynn, K. J., Hansen, P. J., Jeong, H. J., & Stoecker, D. (2019). Plant are not animals and animals are not plants, right? Wrong! Tiny creatures in the ocean can be both at once. Frontiers for Young Minds, 7, [48]. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2019.00048

Vancouver

Glibert PM, Mitra A, Flynn KJ, Hansen PJ, Jeong HJ, Stoecker D. Plant are not animals and animals are not plants, right? Wrong! Tiny creatures in the ocean can be both at once. Frontiers for Young Minds. 2019;7. 48. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2019.00048

Author

Glibert, Patricia M. ; Mitra, Aditee ; Flynn, Kevin J. ; Hansen, Per Juel ; Jeong, Hae Jin ; Stoecker, Diane. / Plant are not animals and animals are not plants, right? Wrong! Tiny creatures in the ocean can be both at once. In: Frontiers for Young Minds. 2019 ; Vol. 7.

Bibtex

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title = "Plant are not animals and animals are not plants, right? Wrong! Tiny creatures in the ocean can be both at once",
abstract = "On land, plants make their own food by photosynthesis and animals live by eating. However, in the microscopic world in the oceans, it is not that simple. Many microscopic so-called plants (phytoplankton) can also eat like animals and many microscopic so-called animals (microzooplankton) can also photosynthesize like plants! More amazingly, some of these microzooplankton eat tiny phytoplankton and continue to live off photosynthesis from those ingested phytoplankton. These organisms acting like both plants and animalsare called mixotrophs because they mix (combine) different ways of getting nutrition. These fascinating creatures are not rare freaks of nature, but are very common. Some mixotrophs are good food for fish, while others make poisons that can get into our seafood and even kill fish. Some are increasing in coastal waters due to pollution. We are learning just how important mixotrophs are to ocean ecosystems.",
author = "Glibert, {Patricia M.} and Aditee Mitra and Flynn, {Kevin J.} and Hansen, {Per Juel} and Jeong, {Hae Jin} and Diane Stoecker",
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AU - Glibert, Patricia M.

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AU - Jeong, Hae Jin

AU - Stoecker, Diane

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AB - On land, plants make their own food by photosynthesis and animals live by eating. However, in the microscopic world in the oceans, it is not that simple. Many microscopic so-called plants (phytoplankton) can also eat like animals and many microscopic so-called animals (microzooplankton) can also photosynthesize like plants! More amazingly, some of these microzooplankton eat tiny phytoplankton and continue to live off photosynthesis from those ingested phytoplankton. These organisms acting like both plants and animalsare called mixotrophs because they mix (combine) different ways of getting nutrition. These fascinating creatures are not rare freaks of nature, but are very common. Some mixotrophs are good food for fish, while others make poisons that can get into our seafood and even kill fish. Some are increasing in coastal waters due to pollution. We are learning just how important mixotrophs are to ocean ecosystems.

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