Jannika Moye

Nov 3, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sebastian Hess |Jannika Moye

INTRODUCTION Protists fulfill diverse important roles in aquatic and soil food webs. While phototrophic representatives, usually referred to as algae, fix carbon dioxide and act as primary producers (Field et al., 1998), heterotrophic forms consume prokaryotes and microeukaryotes by phagotrophy (Sherr & Sherr, 2016) or engage in various mutualistic, parasitic and parasitoid relationships (Garcés et al., 2013; Kim et al., 2008, 2014; Seyedsayamdost et al., 2011).