id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
aiol-10018	Del Gaizo, Gabriele; Russo, Luca; Abagnale, Maria; Buondonno, Angela; Furia, Marta; Saviano, Simona; Vargiu, Mauro; Conversano, Fabio; Margiotta, Francesca; Saggiomo, Maria; Percopo, Isabella; D'Alelio, Domenico	An autumn biodiversity survey on heterotrophic and mixotrophic protists along a coast-to-offshore transect in the Gulf of Naples (Italy)	2021	9	.pdf	application/pdf	5223	272	55	Mixotrophs, being capable of both phagocytosis and photosynthesis within a single cell (Stoecker et al., 2009; Flynn et al., 2013, 2019), encompass different functional types (Mitra et al., 2016), namely: constitutive mixotrophs, bearing innate plastids (e.g., dinoflagellates; Stoecker et al., 2017); non-constitutive mixotrophs, acquiring plastids from photosynthetic preys (i.e., a strategy known as kleptoplasty, which is present in oligotrich ciliates, predating mainly cryptophytic microalgae; Johnson, 2011; Hughes et al., 2021); moreover, some non-constitutive mixotrophs can transmit plastids to the progeny (e.g., Mesodinium rubrum; Johnson et al., 2007; Smith and Hansen, 2007), while some other must acquire new plastids after any cell replication (i.e., most oligotrich ciliates). This species depends heavily upon phototrophy, as up to 90% of its bio- mass production relies on photosynthesis (Stoecker et al., 2009; plus estimation made by D’Alelio et al., 2016b).	cache/aiol-10018.pdf	txt/aiol-10018.txt