@article {florenza_choice_2023,
	title = {Choice of methodology and surrogate prey are decisive for the quality of protistan bacterivory rate estimates},
	journal = {Aquatic Microbial Ecology},
	volume = {89},
	year = {2023},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {43{\textendash}53},
	abstract = {Microeukaryote predation on bacteria is a fundamental phenomenon to understand energy and nutrient dynamics at the base of the aquatic food web. To date, the most prevalent way to estimate grazing rates is by using epifluorescence microscopy to enumerate ingestion events of fluorescently labelled tracers (FLTs) after short-term incubation experiments. However, this approach can be sensitive to the type of FLT, requires skillful preparation of the samples and is limited to small sample sizes. We tested the susceptibility of rate estimates to the choice of prey and made a side-by-side comparison between microscopy and flow cytometry when recording ingestion by a bacterivorous flagellate. Short-term uptake experiments were established using 5 types of FLTs differing in quality (living, dead or inert) and size (large or small), with Ochromonas triangulata as a model flagellate. The experiments showed that (1) each of the different prey types yielded different clearing rates, ranging from 0.5 to 3.6 nl cell-1 h-1, with the largest differences (3fold or higher) between small prey (lower rates) and large prey (higher rates); (2) the cytometry estimate differed significantly from the microscopy estimate in 3 out of 4 experimental configurations; and (3) the precision of the cytometric analysis was greater, with > 3-fold higher uncertainty associated with microscopy counting. Our results validate that flow cytometry provides a more precise bacterivory estimate, and that the choice of FLT influences the grazing rate estimate to a high extent regardless of the analytical method used.},
	keywords = {RCC21},
	issn = {0948-3055, 1616-1564},
	doi = {10.3354/ame01996},
	url = {https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/ame/v89/p43-53/},
	author = {Florenza, J and Bertilsson, S}
}
@article {jimenez_no_2021,
	title = {No evidence of Phago-mixotropy in Micromonas polaris (Mamiellophyceae), the Dominant Picophytoplankton Species in the Arctic},
	journal = {Journal of Phycology},
	volume = {57},
	number = {2},
	year = {2021},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jpy.13125},
	pages = {435{\textendash}446},
	abstract = {In the Arctic Ocean, the small green alga Micromonas polaris dominates picophytoplankton during the summer months but is also present in winter. It has been previously hypothesized to be phago-mixotrophic (capable of bacteria ingestion) based on laboratory and field experiments. Prey uptake was analyzed in several M. polaris strains isolated from different regions and depths of the Arctic Ocean and in Ochromonas triangulata, a known phago-mixotroph used as a control. Measuring ingestion of either fluorescent beads or fluorescently labeled bacteria by flow cytometry, we found no evidence of phago-mixotrophy in any M. polaris strain while O. triangulata was ingesting both beads and bacteria. In addition, in silico predictions revealed that members of the genus Micromonas lack a genetic signature of phagocytotic capacity.},
	keywords = {Arctic, Micromonas, phago-mixotrophy, phytoplankton, rcc, RCC21, RCC2288, RCC2306, RCC4298},
	issn = {1529-8817},
	doi = {10.1111/jpy.13125},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpy.13125},
	author = {Jimenez, Valeria and Burns, John A. and Le Gall, Florence and Not, Fabrice and Vaulot, Daniel}
}
@article {Andersen2017,
	title = {Rediscovery of the Ochromonas type species Ochromonas triangulata (Chrysophyceae) from its type locality (Lake Veysove, Donetsk region, Ukraine)},
	journal = {Phycologia},
	volume = {56},
	number = {6},
	year = {2017},
	note = {tex.ids= Andersen2017a tex.mendeley-tags: 2017,RCC21},
	pages = {591{\textendash}604},
	abstract = {Ochromonas triangulata, the type species for a genus with over 125 taxa, was collected for only the second time, again from the type locality. Cell morphology, cell division, palmelloid stage and cyst structure generally agreed with the original description. Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the 18S rRNA gene revealed 13 clades of Ochromonas-like flagellates as well as the clade represented by our O. triangulata strain and the nearly identical strain RCC-21/AC025. We also conducted a concatenated analysis using the 18S rRNA and the rbcL genes, and we recovered the same 14 clades. One clade, containing strains CCAP 933/27 and CCMP1861, previously named Ochromonas tuberculata, was re-identified as Chrysastrella paradoxa and Chrysastrella breviappendiculata, respectively. One clade included the Poterioochromonas strains but we were unable to convincingly connect species names to the strains because authentic strains were unknown or not examined. Organisms in the clade that included the well-known Ochromonas danica were assigned to Chlorochromonas. The generic name Melkoniania gen. nov. was proposed for one distinct clade of marine flagellates. These changes addressed some of the issues associated with the polyphyletic Ochromonas sensu lato but many problems remained.},
	keywords = {2017, RCC21},
	issn = {0031-8884},
	doi = {10.2216/17-15.1},
	url = {http://www.phycologia.org/doi/10.2216/17-15.1},
	author = {Andersen, Robert A. and Graf, Louis and Malakhov, Yuriy and Yoon, Hwan Su}
}
