Selected publications on mixoplankton; MixITiN staff indicated in bold
Romano F, Symiakaki K, Pitta P (2021) Temporal Variability of Planktonic Ciliates in a Coastal Oligotrophic Environment: Mixotrophy, Size Classes and Vertical Distribution Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.641589
Leles SG, Bruggeman J, Polimene L, Blackford J, Flynn KJ, Mitra A (2021) Differences in physiology explain succession of mixoplankton functional types and affect carbon fluxes in temperate seas. Progress in Oceanography 190:102481 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102481
Mansour JS, Anestis K (2021) Eco-Evolutionary Perspectives on Mixoplankton Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.666160
Mansour JS, Norlin A, Llopis Monferrer N, L’Helguen S, Not F (2021) Carbon and nitrogen content to biovolume relationships for marine protist of the Rhizaria lineage (Radiolaria and Phaeodaria). Limnology and Oceanography 66:1703-1717
Schneider LK, Flynn KJ, Herman PMJ, Troost TA, Stolte W (2020) Exploring the Trophic Spectrum: Placing Mixoplankton Into Marine Protist Communities of the Southern North Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:586915 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.586915
Maselli M, Altenburger A, Stoecker DK, Hansen PJ (2020) Ecophysiological traits of mixotrophic Strombidium spp. Journal of Plankton Research 42: 485–496 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69174-w
Traboni C, Calbet A, Saiz E (2020) Effects of prey trophic mode on the gross-growth efficiency of marine copepods: the case of mixoplankton. Scientific Reports 10:12259 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69174-w
Ferreira GD, Calbet A (2020) Caveats on the use of rotenone to estimate mixotrophic grazing in the oceans. Scientific Reports 10:3899 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60764-2
Anschütz AA, Flynn KJ (2020) Niche separation between different functional types of mixoplankton: results from NPZ-style N-based model simulations. Marine Biology 167:3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-019-3612-3
Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Anestis K, Anschütz AA, Calbet A, Ferreira GD, Gypens N, Hansen PJ, John U, Martin JL, Mansour J, Maselli M, Medić N, Norlin A, Not F, Pitta P, Romano F, Saiz E, Schneider L, Stolte W, Traboni C (2019) Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now? Journal of Plankton Research https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbz026
Svenssen, DK, Binzer, SB, Medić N, Hansen PJ, Larsen TO, & Varga E (2019) Development of an indirect quantitation method to assess ichthyotoxic b-type prymnesins from Prymnesium parvum. Toxins 11:251 https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins11050251
Borges AV, Royer C, Lapeyra Martin J, Champenois W, Gypens N (2019) Response of Marine Methane Dissolved Concentrations and Emissions in the Southern North Sea to the European 2018 Heatwave. Continental Shelf Research 190:104004 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2019.104004
Leles SG, Mitra A, Flynn KJ, Tillmann U, Stoecker D, Jeong HJ, Burkholder J, Hansen PJ, Caron DA, Glibert PM, Hallegraeff G (2019) Sampling bias misrepresents the biogeographical significance of constitutive mixotrophs across global oceans. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 28: 418-428 https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12853
Glibert P, Mitra A, Flynn K, Hansen P, Jeong H and Stoecker D (2019) Plants Are Not Animals and Animals Are Not Plants, Right? Wrong! Tiny Creatures in the Ocean Can Be Both at Once! Front. Young Minds 7: 48. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2019.00048
Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Glibert PM, Burkholder J-AM (2018) Mixotrophy in Harmful Algal Blooms: By Whom, on Whom, When, Why, and What Next. In: Glibert P., Berdalet E., Burford M., Pitcher G., Zhou M. (eds) Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms. Ecological Studies (Analysis and Synthesis), vol 232. Springer, Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70069-4_7
Lin C-H, Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Glibert PM (2018) Simulating Effects of Variable Stoichiometry and Temperature on Mixotrophy in the Harmful Dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum. Front. Mar. Sci. 5: 320 doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00320
Leles SG, Polimene L, Bruggeman J, Blackford J, Ciavatta S, Mitra A, Flynn KJ (2018) Modelling mixotrophic functional diversity and implications for ecosystem function. J. Plankton Res., 40: 627-642 https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fby044
Ghyoot C, Lancelot C, Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Gypens N (2017) Introducing mixotrophy into a biogeochemical model describing an eutrophied coastal ecosystem: The Southern North Sea. Prog. Oceanogr. 157: 1-11 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2017.08.002
Leles SG, Mitra A, Flynn KJ, Stoecker DK, Hansen PJ, Calbet A, McManus GB, Sanders RW, Caron DA, Not F, Hallegraeff GM, Pitta P, Raven JA, Johnson MD, Glibert PM, Våge S. (2017) Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0664
Ghyoot C, Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Lancelot C, Gypens N (2017) Modeling plankton mixotrophy: a mechanistic model consistent with the Shuter-type biochemical approach. Front. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00078
Mitra A, Flynn KJ, Tillmann U, Raven JA, Caron D, Stoecker DK, Not F, Hansen PJ, Hallegraeff G, Sanders R, Wilken S, McManus G, Johnson M, Pitta P, Våge S, Berge T, Calbet A, Thingstad F, Jeong HJ, Burkholder J, Glibert PM, Granéli E, Lundgren V (2016) Defining planktonic protist functional groups on mechanisms for energy and nutrient acquisition; incorporation of diverse mixotrophic strategies. Protist 167: 106-120 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2016.01.003
Lundgren VM, Glibert PM, Granéli E, Vidyarathna NK, Fiori E, Ou L, Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Stoecker DK, Hansen PJ (2016) Metabolic and physiological changes in Prymnesium parvum when grown under, and grazing on prey of, variable nitrogen : phosphorus stoichiometry. Harmful Algae 55: 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2016.01.002
Ghyoot C, Gypens N, Flynn KJ, Lancelot C (2015). Modelling alkaline phosphatase activity in microalgae under orthophosphate limitation: the case of Phaeocystis globosa. J. Plankton Res. 37: 869-885. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbv062
Mitra A, Flynn KJ, Burkholder JM, Berge T, Calbet A, Raven JA, Granéli E, Glibert PM, Hansen PJ, Stoecker DK, Thingstad F, Tillmann U, Våge S, Wilken S, Zubkov MV (2014). The role of mixotrophic protists in the biological carbon pump. Biogeosciences 11: 995-1005 doi:10.5194/bg-11-995-2014
Flynn KJ, Hansen PJ (2013) Cutting the canopy to cefeat the “selfish gene”; conflicting selection pressures for the integration of phototrophy in mixotrophic protists. Protist 164: 811-823 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2013.09.002
Mitra A, Flynn KJ (2010) Modelling mixotrophy in Harmful Algal Blooms; more or less the sum of the parts? J. Mar. Sys. 83: 158-169 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2010.04.006
Flynn KJ, Mitra A (2009) Building the “perfect beast”: modelling mixotrophic plankton. J. Plankton Res. 31: 965-992 https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbp044