Paramecium bursaria, a mixatrophic microbe (IMAGE)

British Ecological Society

Paramecium bursaria, a mixatrophic microbe

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The mixotrophic protist Paramecium bursaria can eat bacteria or use photosynthesis to get energy and carbon. Photosynthesis occurs inside the endosymbiotic Chlorella algae (green spheres) that live inside P bursaria cells.

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Credit Daniel Wieczynski

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