https://news.mit.edu/2022/prochlorococcus-microbes-food-1103
The abundant ocean microbe Prochlorococcus may be more of a mixotroph than it lets on. Long thought to rely solely on photosynthesis, the microbe may get as much as one-third of its carbon through a second strategy: consuming the dissolved remains of other de…
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