Inga Conti-Jerpe, PhD

Host Evaluation: Reliance on Symbionts: A new metric for quantifying nutrient exchange in nutritional mutualisms Mutualisms between autotrophs and heterotrophs that exchange nutrients are of pivotal importance in the ecology and evolution of life on Earth. However, investigation of holobiont trophic strategy...

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social describing and testing a new analytical method for estimating the trophic strategy of mixotrophs using stable isotope data and SIBER besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Changes within the coral symbiosis underpin seasonal trophic plasticity in reef corals Abstract. Scleractinian corals are mixotrophic organisms that use both autotrophic and heterotrophic pathways to fulfill their metabolic needs. Corals span

New Paper led by PhD student Emily Chei that looks as seasonal changes in the coral mutualism:
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