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		<title>Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton bacteria interactions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osnat Weissberg, Dikla Aharonovich, Zhen Wu, Michael J. Follows &#38; Daniel Sher (2025), Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton bacteria interactions, Nature Microbiology, doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-02196-0Description: Weissberg et al (2025) explores how heterotrophic bacteria affect marine phytoplankton, focusing on Prochlorococcus in co-culture with eight bacterial strains. Combining mathematical models and experiments, the authors examined four &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/models-and-co-culture-experiments-assess-four-mechanisms-of-phytoplankton-bacteria-interactions/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton bacteria interactions</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Phytoplankton &amp; Chips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Hill &#124; Darwin Project Microbes mediate the global marine cycles of elements, modulating atmospheric CO2 and helping to maintain the oxygen we all breath yet there is much about them scientists still don’t understand. Now, an award from the Simons Foundation will give researchers from the Darwin Project access to bigger, better computing resources to model &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/phytoplankton-chips/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Phytoplankton &#038; Chips</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Living a &#8220;Mixotrophic&#8221; Lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new study from Darwin Project researchers Ben Ward and Mick Follows some tiny plankton may have big effect on ocean’s carbon storage. Read this story at MIT News How do you find your food? Most animal species, whether they rummage through a refrigerator or stalk prey in the wild, obtain nutrients by &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/living-a-mixotrophic-lifestyle/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Living a &#8220;Mixotrophic&#8221; Lifestyle</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin goes to Ocean Sciences 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving the cold of a New England February behind, the Darwin team will be in full attendance at this year&#8217;s Ocean Sciences conference taking place February 23-28 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Here are all the Darwin Project abstracts: Clayton, S.; Lin, Y. C.; Follows, M. J.; Worden, A. Z.; FINE SCALE ECOLOGY OF PICOEUKARYOTES ACROSS THE &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/darwin-goes-to-ocean-sciences-2014/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin goes to Ocean Sciences 2014</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixotrophic organisms combine autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition and are abundant in both freshwater and marine environments. Recent observations indicate that mixotrophs constitute a large fraction of the biomass, bacterivory, and primary production in oligotrophic environments. While mixotrophy allows greater flexibility in terms of resource acquisition, any advantage must be traded off against an associated increase &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/biophysical-aspects-of-resource-acquisition-and-competition-in-algal-mixotrophs/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/biophysical-aspects-of-resource-acquisition-and-competition-in-algal-mixotrophs-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publication Ward, B.A., S. Dutkiewicz, A.D. Barton and M.J. Follows (2011), Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs, The American Naturalist, Vol. 178, No. 1 (July 2011), pp. 98-112, doi: 10.1086/660284]]></description>
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