The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean
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The Mixoplankton Database (MDB) : Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. / Mitra, Aditee; Caron, David A.; Faure, Emile; Flynn, Kevin J.; Leles, Suzana Gonçalves; Hansen, Per J.; McManus, George B.; Not, Fabrice; Rosario Gomes, Helga do; Santoferrara, Luciana F.; Stoecker, Diane K.; Tillmann, Urban.
I: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Bind 70, Nr. 4, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Mixoplankton Database (MDB)
T2 - Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean
AU - Mitra, Aditee
AU - Caron, David A.
AU - Faure, Emile
AU - Flynn, Kevin J.
AU - Leles, Suzana Gonçalves
AU - Hansen, Per J.
AU - McManus, George B.
AU - Not, Fabrice
AU - Rosario Gomes, Helga do
AU - Santoferrara, Luciana F.
AU - Stoecker, Diane K.
AU - Tillmann, Urban
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Protist plankton are major members of open-water marine food webs. Traditionally divided between phototrophic phytoplankton and phagotrophic zooplankton, recent research shows many actually combine phototrophy and phagotrophy in the one cell; these protists are the “mixoplankton.” Under the mixoplankton paradigm, “phytoplankton” are incapable of phagotrophy (diatoms being exemplars), while “zooplankton” are incapable of phototrophy. This revision restructures marine food webs, from regional to global levels. Here, we present the first comprehensive database of marine mixoplankton, bringing together extant knowledge of the identity, allometry, physiology, and trophic interactivity of these organisms. This mixoplankton database (MDB) will aid researchers that confront difficulties in characterizing life traits of protist plankton, and it will benefit modelers needing to better appreciate ecology of these organisms with their complex functional and allometric predator–prey interactions. The MDB also identifies knowledge gaps, including the need to better understand, for different mixoplankton functional types, sources of nutrition (use of nitrate, prey types, and nutritional states), and to obtain vital rates (e.g. growth, photosynthesis, ingestion, factors affecting photo’ vs. phago’ -trophy). It is now possible to revisit and re-classify protistan “phytoplankton” and “zooplankton” in extant databases of plankton life forms so as to clarify their roles in marine ecosystems.
AB - Protist plankton are major members of open-water marine food webs. Traditionally divided between phototrophic phytoplankton and phagotrophic zooplankton, recent research shows many actually combine phototrophy and phagotrophy in the one cell; these protists are the “mixoplankton.” Under the mixoplankton paradigm, “phytoplankton” are incapable of phagotrophy (diatoms being exemplars), while “zooplankton” are incapable of phototrophy. This revision restructures marine food webs, from regional to global levels. Here, we present the first comprehensive database of marine mixoplankton, bringing together extant knowledge of the identity, allometry, physiology, and trophic interactivity of these organisms. This mixoplankton database (MDB) will aid researchers that confront difficulties in characterizing life traits of protist plankton, and it will benefit modelers needing to better appreciate ecology of these organisms with their complex functional and allometric predator–prey interactions. The MDB also identifies knowledge gaps, including the need to better understand, for different mixoplankton functional types, sources of nutrition (use of nitrate, prey types, and nutritional states), and to obtain vital rates (e.g. growth, photosynthesis, ingestion, factors affecting photo’ vs. phago’ -trophy). It is now possible to revisit and re-classify protistan “phytoplankton” and “zooplankton” in extant databases of plankton life forms so as to clarify their roles in marine ecosystems.
U2 - 10.1111/jeu.12972
DO - 10.1111/jeu.12972
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36847544
VL - 70
JO - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
JF - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
SN - 1066-5234
IS - 4
ER -
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