Bringing the paradigm for marine pelagic production into the 21st century: incorporating mixotrophy into mainstream marine research

Project Information

MixITiN

Grant agreement ID: 766327

DOI

10.3030/766327

Project closed

EC signature date 3 August 2017

Start date 1 October 2017

End date 30 September 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 2 882 898,72

EU contribution

€ 2 882 898,72

Coordinated by

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (6)

Open access peer reviewed publications in international journals

Open access peer reviewed publications in international journals mo30 and on

Presentation of results in international scientific conferences

Presentation of results in international scientific conferences mo30 and on

MixITiN symposium

Midproject symposium including visiting scientists

MixITiN Conference

International conference

Public and media engagement interactions

Public and media engagement interactions (mo.12 and on)

MixITiN website and social networking launch

MixITiN website and social networking launched with regular and frequent updating over project life

Other (1)

MixITiN inaugural meeting

Documents, reports (5)

Reporting interpretative toolkit to enable the use of genomic data aligned with physiological status for representative mixotrophs
Report of seasonal distribution of mixotrophs across Arctic, temperate and Mediterranean coastal waters

Report of seasonal distribution of mixotrophs across Arctic temperate and Mediterranean coastal waters

Guide for field studies and environmental monitoring of mixotrophic populations
Final manual for culture techniques and upkeep of key mixotroph species to support experimental studies
Manual reporting novel approaches for investigating marine planktonic mixotrophy

Publications

Other (6)

Isolation of clean single-cell samples for physiological or molecular experiments (Radiolaria, Acantharia) V.2

Author(s): Joost S Mansour, Fabrice Not
Published in: protocols.io, 2021
Publisher: protocols.io
DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.bqvrmw56

Interpretative toolkit to enable the use of genomic data aligned with physiological status for representative mixoplankton.

Author(s): Anestis A, Mansour JS, Maselli M, Hansen PJ, Not F, John U
Published in: Zenodo, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5520905

HABs and the Mixoplankton Paradigm

Author(s): Mitra A, Flynn KJ
Published in: UNESCO Harmful Algae News, Issue 67, 2021, Page(s) 4-6
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5109703

Single-cell total RNA extraction from marine protists (e.g. Acantharia, Strombidium cf basimorphum, and Prymnesium parvum) V.2

Author(s): Joost S Mansour, Konstantinos Anestis, Fabrice Not, Uwe John
Published in: protocols.io, 2021
Publisher: protocols.io
DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.bp6xmrfn

cDNA library preparation from total RNA extracts of Single-cell marine protists (e.g. Acantharia, Strombidium basimorphum, and Prymnesium parvum) for transcriptome sequencing V.3

Author(s): Joost S Mansour, Konstantinos Anestis, Fabrice Not, Uwe John
Published in: protocols.io, 2021
Publisher: protocols.io
DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.brw3m7gn

Mixoplankton International Workshop Report.

Author(s): Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Glibert P, Smyth T
Published in: Zenodo, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5521009

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Exploring the Trophic Spectrum: Placing Mixoplankton Into Marine Protist Communities of the Southern North Sea

Author(s): Lisa K. Schneider, Kevin J. Flynn, Peter M. J. Herman, Tineke A. Troost, Willem Stolte
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.586915

The strengths and weaknesses of Live Fluorescently Labelled Algae (LFLA) to estimate herbivory in protozooplankton and mixoplankton

Author(s): Guilherme Duarte Ferreira, Joana Figueira, Sónia Cotrim Marques, Per Juel Hansen, Albert Calbet
Published in: Marine Environmental Research, Issue 174, 2022, ISSN 0141-1136
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2022.105558

Polyketide synthase genes and molecular trade-offs in the ichthyotoxic species Prymnesium parvum.

Author(s): Anestis K, Kohli GS, Wohlrab S, Varga E, Larsen TO, Hansen PJ, John U
Published in: Science of Total Environment, 2021, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148878

Temporal Variability of Planktonic Ciliates in a Coastal Oligotrophic Environment: Mixotrophy, Size Classes and Vertical Distribution

Author(s): Filomena Romano, Katerina Symiakaki, Paraskevi Pitta
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 8, 2021, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.641589

From webs, loops, shunts, and pumps to microbial multitasking: Evolving concepts of marine microbial ecology, the mixoplankton paradigm, and implications for a future ocean

Author(s): Patricia M Glibert & Aditee Mitra
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, 2022, ISSN 1939-5590
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/lno.12018

Drivers of the variability of dimethylsulfonioproprionate (DMSP) and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) in the Southern North Sea

Author(s): Royer C, Borges AV, Lapeyra Martin J, Gypens N
Published in: Continental Shelf Research, Issue 216, 2021, Page(s) 104360, ISSN 0278-4343
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2021.104360

Niche separation between different functional types of mixoplankton: results from NPZ-style N-based model simulations

Author(s): Anna-A Anschütz, Kevin J. Flynn
Published in: Marine Biology, Issue 167/1, 2020, ISSN 0025-3162
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-019-3612-3

Carbon and nitrogen content to biovolume relationships for marine protist of the Rhizaria lineage (Radiolaria and Phaeodaria)

Author(s): Joost Samir Mansour; Andreas Norlin; Natalia Llopis Monferrer; Stéphane L'Helguen; Fabrice Not
Published in: Limnology And Oceanography, 2021, Page(s) 1703-1717, ISSN 1536-3538
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/lno.11714

Caveats on the use of rotenone to estimate mixotrophic grazing in the oceans

Author(s): Guilherme D. Ferreira, Albert Calbet
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60764-2

Relationships of pelagic ciliates with the microbial food web components at a coastal station in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea: temporal and vertical variability

Author(s): Filomena Romano, Paraskevi Pitta
Published in: Journal of Plankton Research, Issue 43/5, 2021, Page(s) 691-711, ISSN 0142-7873
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbab053

The coupling between irradiance, growth, photosynthesis and prymnesin cell quota and production in two strains of the bloom-forming haptophyte, Prymnesium parvum

Author(s): Nikola Medic, Elisabeth Varga, Dedmer B. Van de Waal, Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen, Per Juel Hansen
Published in: Harmful Algae, Issue 112, 2022, Page(s) 8, ISSN 1568-9883
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2022.102173

Effects of prey trophic mode on the gross-growth efficiency of marine copepods: the case of mixoplankton

Author(s): Claudia Traboni, Albert Calbet, Enric Saiz
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69174-w

Development of an Indirect Quantitation Method to Assess Ichthyotoxic B-Type Prymnesins from Prymnesium parvum

Author(s): Daniel Killerup Svenssen, Sofie Bjørnholt Binzer, Nikola Medić, Per Juel Hansen, Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen, Elisabeth Varga
Published in: Toxins, Issue 11/5, 2019, Page(s) 251, ISSN 2072-6651
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/toxins11050251

Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now?

Author(s): Kevin J Flynn, Aditee Mitra, Konstantinos Anestis, Anna A Anschütz, Albert Calbet, Guilherme Duarte Ferreira, Nathalie Gypens, Per J Hansen, Uwe John, Jon Lapeyra Martin, Joost S Mansour, Maira Maselli, Nikola Medić, Andreas Norlin, Fabrice Not, Paraskevi Pitta, Filomena Romano, Enric Saiz, Lisa K Schneider, Willem Stolte, Claudia Traboni
Published in: Journal of Plankton Research, 2019, ISSN 0142-7873
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbz026

Modeling mixoplankton along the biogeochemical gradient of the Southern North Sea

Author(s): Lisa K. Schneider, Nathalie Gypens, Tineke A. Troost, Willem Stolte
Published in: Ecological Modelling, Issue 459, 2021, Page(s) 109690, ISSN 0304-3800
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109690

Ecophysiological traits of mixotrophic Strombidium spp

Author(s): Maira Maselli, Andreas Altenburger, Diane K Stoecker, Per Juel Hansen
Published in: Journal of Plankton Research, Issue 42/5, 2020, Page(s) 485-496, ISSN 0142-7873
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbaa041

Retention of Prey Genetic Material by the Kleptoplastidic Ciliate Strombidium cf. basimorphum

Author(s): Maira Maselli, Konstantinos Anestis, Kerstin Klemm, Per Juel Hansen, Uwe John
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 8, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.694508

Differences in physiology explain succession of mixoplankton functional types and affect carbon fluxes in temperate seas

Author(s): Suzana Gonçalves Leles, Jorn Bruggeman, Luca Polimene, Jerry Blackford, Kevin J Flynn, Aditee Mitra
Published in: Progress in Oceanography, Issue 190, 2021, Page(s) 102481, ISSN 0079-6611
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102481

Metabolic Reliance on Photosynthesis Depends on Both Irradiance and Prey Availability in the Mixotrophic Ciliate, Strombidium cf. basimorphum

Author(s): Erin Ann Hughes, Maira Maselli, Helle Sørensen, Per Juel Hansen
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 12, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.642600

Response of marine methane dissolved concentrations and emissions in the Southern North Sea to the European 2018 heatwave

Author(s): A.V. Borges, C. Royer, J. Lapeyra Martin, W. Champenois, N. Gypens
Published in: Continental Shelf Research, Issue 190, 2019, Page(s) 104004, ISSN 0278-4343
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2019.104004

A dataset on trophic modes of aquatic protists

Author(s): Lisa Schneider, Konstantinos Anestis, Joost Mansour, Anna Anschütz, Nathalie Gypens, Per Hansen, Uwe John, Kerstin Klemm, Jon Martin, Nikola Medic, Fabrice Not, Willem Stolte
Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal, Issue 8, 2020, ISSN 1314-2828
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/bdj.8.e56648

Mixotrophy upgrades food quality for marine calanoid copepods

Author(s): Claudia Traboni; Albert Calbet; Enric Saiz
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, Issue 66, 2021, Page(s) 4125–4139, ISSN 1939-5590
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/lno.11948

Exploring evolution of maximum growth rates in plankton

Author(s): Kevin J Flynn, David O F Skibinski
Published in: Journal of Plankton Research, Issue 42/5, 2020, Page(s) 497-513, ISSN 0142-7873
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbaa038

Eco-Evolutionary Perspectives on Mixoplankton

Author(s): Mansour JS, Anestis K
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021, Page(s) 597, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.666160

Mixoplankton interferences in dilution grazing experiments

Author(s): Guilherme D. Ferreira, Filomena Romano, Nikola Medić, Paraskevi Pitta, Per Juel Hansen, Kevin J. Flynn, Aditee Mitra, Albert Calbet
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03176-0

Monographic books (6)

A Manual For Isolation And Culture Of Mixoplankton To Support Experimental Studies.

Author(s): Hansen PJ, Flynn KJ, Mitra A, Calbet A, Saiz E, Pitta P, Maselli M, Medić N, Romano F, Traboni C
Published in: Zenodo, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5520864

Novel Approaches For Investigating Marine Planktonic Mixotrophy

Author(s): Aditee, MITRA; J, FLYNN Kevin; Konstantinos, ANESTIS; S, MANSOUR Joost; D, FERREIRA Guilherme; Albert, CALBET
Published in: Zenodo, Issue 9, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5148499

Enhancing Microalgal Production - constructing decision support tools using system dynamics modelling

Author(s): Flynn, Kevin John
Published in: Zenodo, Issue 9, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5036605

A Simple N-based Mixoplankton Model

Author(s): Flynn, Kevin John; Mitra, Aditee
Published in: Zenodo, Issue 7, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5040445

A guide for field studies and environmental monitoring of mixoplankton populations

Author(s): Mitra, Aditee; Gypens, Nathalie; Hansen, Per Juel; Flynn, Kevin J
Published in: Zenodo, Issue 13, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5054916

Seasonal Distribution Of Non-Constitutive Mixoplankton Across Arctic, Temperate And Mediterranean Coastal Waters

Author(s): Mitra, Aditee; Hansen, Per Juel; Flynn, Kevin J
Published in: Zenodo, Issue 2, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5055708

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Mixotrophy of photosymbiotic Radiolaria

Author(s): Joost Samir Mansour
Published in: 2021
Publisher: HAL

Conference proceedings (1)

Uncoupling heterotrophic and mixotrophic predation using Rotenone, a mitochondrial inhibitor

Author(s): Duarte Ferreira, Guilherme; Calbet, Albert
Published in: Issue 2, 2019
Publisher: Digital CSIC