Mixotroph
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A mixotroph is an organism that uses a mix of different sources of energy and carbon, instead of having a single trophic mode. Mixotrophs are situated somewhere on the continuum from complete autotrop
The leaf of a carnivorous plant, Drosera capensis, bending in response to the trapping of an insect
The floating fern Azolla filiculoides hosts a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria.
Zooxanthellae is a photosynthetic algae that lives inside hosts like coral.
Anthopleura xanthogrammica gains its green colour from Zoochlorella.
Spotted salamander
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The spotted salamander, also known commonly as the yellow-spotted salamander, is a species of mole salamander in the family Ambystomatidae. The species is native to the eastern United States and Canad
Mixotroph
…and microbes, but there are many examples of mixotrophic invertebrates and at least one example of a mixotrophic vertebrate. The spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, also hosts microalgae within its cells. Its embryos have been found to have symbiotic algae living inside them, the only known example of vertebrate…
Spotted Salamander, Cantley, Quebec
Polymorphic spotted salamander egg masses: white morph (left) and clear morph (right)
Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) larva
An adult spotted salamander seen crawling on the forest floor in central Ontario.