Sentences with phrase «with heterotrophic»

Benthic biofilms are composed of a community of photoautotrophic organisms, predominantly diatoms and cyanobacteria, together with heterotrophic microbes, bound together by an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS).

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Myco - heterotrophic plants germinate and grow through a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi.

The oceans of around 1 billion years ago, the researchers argue, were topped by a thin oxygenated layer populated with photosynthetic organisms and heterotrophic bacteria.

Downcore changes in carbon and sulfur cycling show discrete geochemical intervals with chemoautotrophic δ13C signatures locally attenuated by heterotrophic metabolism.

However, much of this work is still in its nascent stages,» said Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, who is one of the co-authors of «Self - sustaining, solar - driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell using co-culture of heterotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria,» along with PhD candidate Lin Liu.

The interdisciplinary nature of the SINGEK network makes it a perfect fit and allows me to experiment with data - mining of marine heterotrophic protists in many great institutions.

During the discovery of New Zealand's methane seeps, an unexpectedly dense habitat of heterotrophic infauna, dominated by ampharetid polychaetes, was found to co-occur with incredibly high methane emission.

For example; heterotrophic bacteria can compete with carbon fixing autotrophic bacteria for nitrogen which can result in a substantial reduction of carbon export to the deep since the heterotrophic bacteria send CO2 back to the atmosphere via respiration.

It is, however, consistent with a previous global calculation f the heterotrophic soil flux 23, given the general heterotrophic contri - bution to RS (ref.