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Postdoc Holly Moeller working in the lab.

Postdoc Holly Moeller working in the lab.
Postdoc Holly Moeller working in the lab.
Postdoc Holly Moeller working in the lab.
Postdoc Holly Moeller working in the lab.
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Kostel, Kenneth
Postdoc Holly Moeller working in the lab.
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04/03/2015
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2, pg. 26:
The organisms above shaped like 8s with hairlike cilia around
themare Mesodinium rubrum. They usually grow by eating algae (as the one on the left is doing). But M. rubrum can also steal cellular machinery from algae and use it to make food via photosynthesis. Left: Postdoctoral fellow Holly Moeller studies these remarkable
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WHOI postdoctoral fellow Holly Moeller investigated a curious single-celled marine organism with a remarkable ability to behave both like an animal and a plant. The organism, called Mesodinium rubrum, typically graze on algae, like an animal. But they can also steal organelles from algae they eat, incorporating the algaes nuclei and chloroplasts inside their own cells. Using those organelles, M. rubrum can perform photosynthesis to make food, like a plant. Moeller and WHOI biologist Matt Johnson study this metabolic strategy, which is called acquired phototrophy.
Photo by Ken Kostel
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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