Osmotrophy is the uptake of dissolved organic compounds by osmosis for nutrition. An organic compound is any member of a large class of Chemical compounds whose Molecules contain Carbon. Osmosis is the Diffusion of a solvent (frequently water through a semi-permeable membrane, from a solution of low solute concentration (high water potential Organisms that use osmotrophy are osmotrophs. Some mixotrophic microorganisms use osmotrophy to derive energy. A mixotrophic organism is one that obtains its electrons from an inorganic electron source ( Hydrogen-sulfide, Ammonium, Hydrogen) but uses organic matter A microorganism (also spelled micro organism or micro-organism and also called a microbe) is an Organism that is Microscopic (usually
References
- Osmotrophy. Glossary of Fishery, Oceanographic, Phylogenetic and other Biological Terms. Retrieved on October 11, 2005. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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. , doi:10.1017/S0025315400002861
See also
- autotrophy
- heterotrophy
- zootrophy
This ecology-related article is a stub. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. Autotrophy is the ability to be self-sustained by producing food from inorganic compounds A heterotrophs, or chemoorganotrophy ( Greek heterone = (another and trophe = nutrition is an Organism that requires Ecology (from Greek grc οἶκος oikos, "house(hold" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic