Transcriptional profile reveals the physiological responses to prey availability in the mixotrophic chrysophyte Poterioochromonas malhamensis.

ABSTRACT: Mixotrophic flagellates, which have diverse nutritional modes and play important roles in connecting the microbial loop with the classical food chain, are ideal models to study the mechanisms of adaptation between different nutritional modes in protists. In their natural ecosystems, mixotrophic flagellates may encounter microalgal prey of different digestibility, which may affect the carbon flow. To date, a molecular biological view of the metabolic processes in the mixotrophic flagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis during nutritional adaptation and feeding on microalgal prey of different digestibility is still lacking. Accordingly, this study focused on the gene expression differences in P. malhamensis under autotrophy, being fed by the digestible microalga Chlorella so

SUBMITTER: Ma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10582637 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature