Morphology, behavior, and phylogenomics of Oxytoxum lohmannii, Dinoflagellata.

ABSTRACT: Dinoflagellates are an abundant and diverse group of protists representing a wealth of unique biology and ecology. While many dinoflagellates are photosynthetic or mixotrophic, many taxa are heterotrophs, often with complex feeding strategies. Compared to their photosynthetic counterparts, heterotrophic dinoflagellates remain understudied, as they are difficult to culture. One exception, a long-cultured isolate originally classified as Amphidinium but recently reclassified as Oxytoxum, has been the subject of a number of feeding, growth, and chemosensory studies. This lineage was recently determined to be closely related to Prorocentrum using phylogenetics of ribosomal RNA gene sequences, but the exact nature of this relationship remains unresolved. Using transcriptomes sequenced from cult

SUBMITTER: Cooney EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11603288 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature