Publications related to this project

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2017
Terrado, R., A.L. Pasulka, A.A.Y. Lie, V.J. Orphan, K.B. Heidelberg and D.A. Caron. 2017. Autotrophic and heterotrophic acquisition of carbon and nitrogen by a mixotrophic chrysophyte established through stable isotope analysis. The ISME Journal. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.68. pdf
Lie, A.A.Y., Z. Liu, R. Terrado, A.O. Tatters, K.B. Heidelberg and D.A. Caron. 2017. Effect of light and prey availability on gene expression of the mixotrophic chrysophyte, Ochromonas sp. BMC Genomics. 18: 163. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3549-1. pdf
Stoecker, D.K., P.J. Hanse, D.A. Caron and A. Mitra. 2017. Mixotrophy in the marine plankton. Annual Reviews of Marine Sciences. 9: 311-335. pdf
Caron, D.A. 2017. Acknowledging and incorporating mixed nutrition into aquactic protistan ecology, finally. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 9: 41-43. pdf
Liu, Z., S.K. Hu, V. Campbell, A.O. Tatters, K.B. Heidelberg and D.A. Caron. 2017. Single-cell transcriptomics of small microbial eukaryotes: insights and limitations. The ISME Journal. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.190. pdf
2016
Caron, D.A., H. Alexander, A.E., J. M. Archibald, E.V. Armbrust, C. Bachy, A. Bharti, C.J. Bell, S.T. Dyhrman, S. Guida, K.B. Heidelberg, J.Z. Kaye, J. Metzner, S.R. Smith and A.Z. Worden. 2016. Probing the evolution, ecology and physiology of marine protists using transcriptomics. Nature Reviews Microbiology. DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.160.  pdf
Mitra, A., K.J. Flynn, U. Tillmann, J. Raven, D. Caron, D. Stoecker, F. Not, P. Hansen, G. Hallegraeff,  R. Sanders, S. Wilken, G. McManus, M. Johnson, P. Pitta, S. Våge, R. Berje, A. Calbet, F. Thingstad, J.J. Jeong, J. Burkholder, P. Glibert, E. Granéli and V. Lundgren.  2016.  Defining planktonic protist functional groups on mechanisms for energy and nutrient acquisition; incorporation of diverse mixotrophic strategies. Protist.  167: 106-120.  pdf
Liu, Z., V. Campbell, K. Heidelberg and D.A. Caron.  2016.  Gene expression characterizes  different nutritional strategies among three mixotrophic protists.  FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92: fiw106.  pdf
Caron, D.A.  2016.  Mixotrophy stirs up our understanding of marine food webs.  Proceedings of the Academy of National Sciences of the U.S.  113 (11): 2806-2808.  pdf
2015
Liu, Z., A.C. Jones, V. Campbell, K.D. Hambright, K.B. Heidelberg and D.A. Caron, Gene expression in the mixotrophic prymnesiophyte, Prymnesium parvum, responds to prey availability. Frontiers in Microbiology 6 (2015).  DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00319.  pdf
Liu, Z., A.E. Koid, R. Terrado, V. Campbell, D.A. Caron and K.B. Heidelberg.  2015.  Changes in gene expression of Prymnesium parvum due to nitrogen and phosphorus limitation.  Frontiers in Microbiology, Aquatic Microbiology. Vol. 6.  DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00631. pdf
2014
Keeling, P.J. and 78 others.  2014.  The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP):  Illuminating the functional diversity of eukaryotic life in the oceans through transcriptome sequencing.  PLOS Biology.  12: e1001889.
Koid, A.E., A, Jones, Z. Liu, D.A. Caron and K.B. Heidelberg.  2014.  Comparative transcriptomics of four prymnesiophyte algae.  PLoS One.  9: e97801.  pdf
2013
Caron, D.A. and D.A. Hutchins.  2013.  The effects of changing climate on microzooplankton grazing and community structure: drivers, predictions and knowledge gaps.  Journal of Plankton Research.  35: 235-252.  pdf

 

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