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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.
References
- "Osmotrophy". Glossary of Fishery, Oceanographic, Phylogenetic and other Biological Terms. Retrieved on October 11, 2005.
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: 165–166.
- 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: 885–890, http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0025315400002861., doi:10.1017/S0025315400002861
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