“…Mixotrophy appears for taxa from miscellaneous functional groups of phytoplankton, including haptophytes (2,4,6), green algae (5,7,8), dinoflagellates (9), cyanobacteria (10), cryptophytes (11) and diatoms (12). Combining autotrophic and heterotrophic mechanisms might enable an efficient uptake of carbon and required nutrients such as N, P or amino acids (13,14). Mixotrophic phytoplankton can achieve higher biomass yields in the presence of organic carbon compared to autotrophic conditions (15,16), which is made use of in bioengineering (17).…”