An organism that uses energy from sunlight to synthesize organic compounds for nutrition.
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Hints for this comes from a recent publication showing that 15 genes that are limited to the plastid genome in all other eukaryotic phototrophs are nucleus encoded in a peridinin-containing dinoflagellate.
Our approach disclosed a disproportional impact on trophic cascades by numerically minor phototrophs that otherwise would have gone unnoticed.
Whereas phototrophs generally harbor a large number of isoforms, animals exhibit only two or three isoforms.
Consequently, numerous marine phototrophs, including macro- and microalgae, have developed carbon-concentrating mechanisms.
Symbiosis with unicellular phototrophs has existed in anthozoans at least since the Triassic (225 million years ago) and likely constitutes a source of selective pressures that have deeply modified the host's physiology.
Definition of phototroph in US English:
phototroph
nounˈfōdəˌträf
Biology
A phototrophic organism.
〔生〕光养生物，光能利用菌
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Symbiosis with unicellular phototrophs has existed in anthozoans at least since the Triassic (225 million years ago) and likely constitutes a source of selective pressures that have deeply modified the host's physiology.
Our approach disclosed a disproportional impact on trophic cascades by numerically minor phototrophs that otherwise would have gone unnoticed.
Whereas phototrophs generally harbor a large number of isoforms, animals exhibit only two or three isoforms.
Consequently, numerous marine phototrophs, including macro- and microalgae, have developed carbon-concentrating mechanisms.
Hints for this comes from a recent publication showing that 15 genes that are limited to the plastid genome in all other eukaryotic phototrophs are nucleus encoded in a peridinin-containing dinoflagellate.