Oxyrrhismarina is a species of heterotrophic dinoflagellate with flagella that is widely distributed in the world's oceans. This protozoan species has...
protists. Oxyrrhis is an early-branching lineage and has long been described in literature as a monospecific genus, containing only Oxyrrhismarina. Some...
Ceratium hirundinella, Peridinium globulus) and nonthecate (e.g. Oxyrrhismarina, Gymnodinium sp. and Kofoidinium spp.), draw prey to the sulcal region...
phytoplankton. In laboratory experiments the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Oxyrrhismarina preferred calcified over non-calcified cells of E. huxleyi, which was...
predatory. Organisms that derive their nutrition in this manner include Oxyrrhismarina, which feeds phagocytically on phytoplankton, Polykrikos kofoidii,...
absorption by water which creates wavelength gradients relative to depth. Oxyrrhismarina is a dinoflagellate protist with green-absorbing proteorhodopsin (a...
viral sweep for cycling carbon into higher trophic levels. Conversely, Oxyrrhismarina had a grazing preference for virally infected Emiliania huxleyi. It's...
Saldarriaga, J. F., et al. (2003). Multiple protein phylogenies show that Oxyrrhismarina and Perkinsus marinus are early branches of the dinoflagellate lineage...
J.; Keeling, P. J. (2003). "Multiple protein phylogenies show that Oxyrrhismarina and Perkinsus marinus are early branches of the dinoflagellate lineage"...
Coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi to Grazing by the Dinoflagellate Oxyrrhismarina". Frontiers in Marine Science. 3: 1. doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00001....
extant genus of the Suessiaceae family. The genus was described in 1999 by Marina Montresor, Gabriele Procaccini, and Diane K. Stoecker, and contains only...
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