Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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Author: John W. Foster, Joan L. Slonczewski
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The concept of mixotrophy and the reason behind the occurrence of mixotrophy in marine eukaryotes.

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Mixotroph is an organism that can utilize a mixture of different energies and carbon sources. The mixotrophs do not have a single trophic mode on the spectrum from full autotrophy at one hand to heterotrophy at the other. It is believed that more than half of all microscopic plankton consist of mixotrophs.

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