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Mixotrophy upgrades food quality for marine calanoid copepods
Traboni, C.; Calbet, A.; Saiz, E. (2021). Mixotrophy upgrades food quality for marine calanoid copepods. Limnol. Oceanogr. 66(12): 4125-4139. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11948
In: Limnology and Oceanography. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography: Waco, Tex., etc. ISSN 0024-3590; e-ISSN 1939-5590, meer
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    Copepoda [WoRMS]
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  • Traboni, C., meer
  • Calbet, A.
  • Saiz, E.

Abstract
    Inorganic nutrient limitation affects the stoichiometry and nutritional quality of marine phytoplankton. Mixoplankton, able to photosynthesize and feed simultaneously in the one cell, can compensate shortage of nutrients by phagotrophy, theoretically upgrading their nutritional quality for their predators: the zooplankton. Yet, the additional value that phagotrophy in mixoplankton may provide to support zooplankton growth and recruitment has been poorly explored. Therefore, we investigated the feeding and reproductive performances of the copepods Paracartia grani and Centropages typicus on mono-diets of the dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum grown as strict autotroph and as mixotroph, both under N and P depletion, and in nutrient-balanced conditions (f/2 medium; only as autotroph). Feeding and reproduction outputs were generally higher in P. grani than in C. typicus. Both copepod species ingested the mixotrophic K. veneficum at similar rates than the autotrophic ones in either nutrient-limited scenario. However, egg production and recruitment rates generally increased when feeding on mixotrophs, in P. grani on both N- and P-limited diets, and in C. typicus under P limitation. In general, P limitation influenced copepod physiology more than N depletion. Our results show that phagotrophy upgrades nutritional quality in nutrient-limited mixotrophs as prey for copepods compared to the strict autotrophic ones. These findings are among the first reported cases of copepod ingestion in the laboratory on actively feeding mixoplankton, and they highlight the importance of considering the trophic mode of the protist and the response by various zooplanktonic predators when attempting to understand the functioning of marine planktonic food webs.

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