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Osmotrophy

Osmotrophy is the uptake of dissolved organic compounds by osmosis for nutrition. Organisms that use osmotrophy are osmotrophs. Some mixotrophic microorganisms use osmotrophy to derive energy.

They are found primarily in many types of basal eukaryotes, particularly Fungi and Protista.

Further reading

Peter A. Jumars (2005). "Foraging Theory for Osmotrophs".

P.A. Jumars, J. W. Deming, P.H. Hill, L. Karp-Boss, P. L. Yager and W. B. Dade (1993). "Physical constraints on marine osmotrophy in an optimal foraging context". Marine Microbial Food Webs 7 (2): 121–159.

McMenamin, M. (1993). "Osmotrophy in fossil protoctists and early animals". Invertebr. Repro. Develop. 23 (2–3): 165–166. doi:10.1080/07924259.1993.9672308.

Michel Duvert, Lucienne Gourdoux, and Robert Moreau (2000). "Cytochemical And Physiological Studies Of The Energetic Metabolism And Osmotrophy In Sagitta Friderici (Chaetognath)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 80:5 (5): 885–890. doi:10.1017/s0025315400002861.

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