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Troph flowchart
Flowchart to determine if a species is autotroph, heterotroph, or a subtype

A mixotroph is an organism that can use a mix of different sources of energy and carbon. Usually this means that it may be either autotroph or heterotroph at different times in its life. Also possible are alternations between photo- and chemotrophy, or between litho- and organotrophy. Mixotrophs can be either eukaryotes or prokaryotes.

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  • Traditional classification of mixotrophic protists
    Traditional classification of mixotrophic protists
    In this diagram, types in open boxes as proposed by Stoecker  have been aligned against groups in grey boxes as proposed by Jones.                               DIN = dissolved inorganic nutrients
  • Pathways used to derive functional groups of planktonic protists
    Pathways used by Mitra et al. to derive functional groups of planktonic protists as shown on the right  →
  • Zooxanthellae

    Zooxanthellae is a photosynthetic algae that lives inside hosts like coral

  • Anthopleura xanthogrammica 1

    Anthopleura xanthogrammica gains its green colour from Zoochlorella

  • Paramecium bursaria

    A single-celled ciliate with green zoochlorellae living inside endosymbiotically

  • Euglena mutabilis - 400x - 1 (10388739803) (cropped)

    Euglena mutabilis, a photosynthetic flagellate

  • Euglenoid movement

    Euglenoid

  • Acantharia confocial micrograph 2

    Fluorescent micrograph of an acantharian with Phaeocystis symbionts fluorescing red (chlorophyll)

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