FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Deuterium in Marine Organic Biomarkers: Toward a new tool for quantifying aquatic mixotrophy BT AF Cormier, Marc‐André Berard, Jean-Baptiste Bougaran, Gael Trueman, Clive N. Mayor, Daniel J. Lampitt, Richard S. Kruger, Nicholas J. Flynn, Kevin J. Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:3;5:4;6:4;7:5;8:6;9:1; FF 1:;2:PDG-ODE-PHYTOX-PHYSALG;3:PDG-ODE-PHYTOX-PHYSALG;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Deuterium in Marine Organic Biomarkers: Toward a new tool for quantifying aquatic mixotrophyUniversity of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3AN ,UK IFREMER, Physiology and Biotechnology of Algae (PBA) Laboratory rue de l'Ile d'Yeu, BP 21105 44311 Nantes cedex 3 ,France Ocean and Earth Science University of Southampton Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK Ocean Biogeosciences National Oceanography Centre Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3RB, UK Plymouth Marine Laboratory Plymouth Prospect Place PL1 3DH, UK C2 UNIV OXFORD, UK IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV SOUTHAMPTON, UK NOC, UK UNIV OXFORD, UK PML, UK SI NANTES SE PDG-ODE-PHYTOX-PHYSALG IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-europe IF 9.4 TC 5 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00750/86227/91521.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00750/86227/91522.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;biomarker;carbon cycle;hydrogen;isotope;mixoplankton;mixotrophy;protist AB The traditional separation between primary producers (autotrophs) and consumers (heterotrophs) at the base of the marine food web is being increasingly replaced by the paradigm that mixoplankton, planktonic protists with the nutritional ability to use both phago(hetero)trophy and photo(auto)trophy to access energy, are widespread globally. Thus many "phytoplankton" eat, while 50% of "protozooplankton" also perform photosynthesis. Mixotrophy may enhance primary production, biomass transfer to higher trophic levels, and the efficiency of the biological pump to sequester atmospheric CO2 into the deep ocean. Although this view is gaining traction, science lacks a tool to quantify the relative contributions of autotrophy and heterotrophy in planktonic protists. This hinders our understanding of their impacts on carbon cycling within marine pelagic ecosystems. It has been shown that the hydrogen (H) isotopic signature of lipids is uniquely sensitive to heterotrophy relative to autotrophy in plants and bacteria. Here we explored whether it is also sensitive to the trophic status in protists. The new understanding of H isotope signature of lipid biomarkers suggests it offers great potential as a novel tool for quantifying the prevalence of mixotrophy in diverse marine microorganisms and thus to investigate the implications of the “mixoplankton” paradigm. PY 2022 PD MAY SO New Phytologist SN 0028-646X PU Wiley VL 234 IS 3 UT 000764431100001 BP 776 EP 782 DI 10.1111/nph.18023 ID 86227 ER EF