relating to a combination of heterotrophic and autotrophic sustenance
Examples of 'mixotrophic' in a sentence
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Mixotrophic ciliates and dinoflagellates grew faster than their heterotrophic counterparts.
Gayantonia Franzè, Peter J Lavrentyev 2014, 'Microzooplankton growth rates examined across a temperature gradient in the BarentsSea.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3901709?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Mixotrophic flagellates can comprise significant proportions of plankton biomass in marine ecosystems.
Zaid M. McKie-Krisberg, Robert W. Sanders, Rebecca J. Gast 2018, 'Evaluation of Mixotrophy-Associated Gene Expression in Two Species of Polar MarineAlgae', Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00273/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, mixotrophic bacterivory could be a survival rather than a growth strategy for certain species.
Ruth Anderson, Sophie Charvet, Sophie Charvet, Per J. Hansen 2018, 'Mixotrophy in Chlorophytes and Haptophytes—Effect of Irradiance, Macronutrient, Micronutrientand Vitamin Limitation', Frontiers in Microbiologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01704/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These microorganisms have different forms of energetic metabolism, especially the photoautotrophic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic photoautotrophic.
Elisangela Andrade Angelo, Diva Souza Andrade, Arnaldo Colozzi Filho 2014, 'Non-photoautotrophic cultivation of microalgae: an overview', Semina : Ciências Biológicas e da Saúdehttp://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/seminabio/article/view/18131. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Lutein accumulated up to 3.55 mg·g-1 in the mixotrophic cultures grown on urea.
Carlos Vilchez, Carlos Casal, Maria Cuaresma, Jose Maria Vega 2010, 'Enhanced Productivity of a Lutein-Enriched Novel Acidophile Microalga Grown on Urea',Marine Drugshttp://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/9/1/29/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Both salt stress and mixotrophic culture conditions increased the specific yield of polysaccharides.
Shi-Gang Shen, Ya-Hui Lin, Dong-Xue Zhao, Yi-Kai Wu, Rong-Rong Yan, Hua-Bing Zhao,Zhi-Lei Tan, Shi-Ru Jia, Pei-Pei Han 2019, 'Comparisons of Functional Properties of Polysaccharides from Nostoc flagelliformeunder Three Culture Conditions', Polymershttps://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/11/2/263. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The sll0528 gene was induced to a much smaller extent by high light and mixotrophic growth with glucose.
Haijin Lei, Gu Chen, Yuling Wang, Qinglong Ding, Dong Wei 2014, 'Sll0528, a Site-2-Protease, Is Critically Involved in Cold, Salt and HyperosmoticStress Acclimation of Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/15/12/22678. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this study, we used isogenic algal cells that were first synchronized in mixotrophic growth conditions.
Shima P Damodaran, Stephan Eberhard, Laurent Boitard, Jairo Garnica Rodriguez, YuxingWang, Nicolas Bremond, Jean Baudry, Jérôme Bibette, Francis-André Wollman 2015, 'A millifluidic study of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in growth-rate and cell-divisioncapability in populations of isogenic cells of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4356620?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)