• Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum 

      Altenburger, Andreas; Cai, Huimin; Li, Qiye; Drumm, Kirstine; Kim, Miran; Zhu, Yuanzhen; Garcia-Cuetos, Lydia; Zhan, Xiaoyu; Hansen, Per Juel; John, Uwe; Li, Shuaicheng; Lundholm, Nina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-23)
      The marine ciliate <i>Mesodinium rubrum</i> is famous for its ability to acquire and exploit chloroplasts and other cell organelles from some cryptophyte algal species. We sequenced genomes and transcriptomes of free-swimming <i>Teleaulax amphioxeia</i>, as well as well-fed and starved <i>M. rubrum</i> in order to understand cellular processes upon sequestration under different prey and light ...
    • Physiological Responses of Mesodiniummajor to Irradiance, Prey Concentration and Prey Starvation 

      Drumm, Kristine; Norlin, Andreas; Kim, Miran; Altenburger, Andreas; Hansen, Per Juel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-18)
      Ciliates within the <i>Mesodinium rubrum/Mesodinium major</i> species complex harbor chloroplasts and other cell organelles from specific cryptophyte species. <i>Mesodinium major</i> was recently described, and new studies indicate that blooms of <i>M. major</i> are just as common as blooms of <i>M. rubrum</i>. Despite this, the physiology of <i>M. major</i> has never been studied and compared to ...