 Heterotrophic Processes
"Heterotrophic Processes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The processes by which organisms utilize organic substances as their nutrient sources. Contrasts with AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES which make use of simple inorganic substances as the nutrient supply source. Heterotrophs can be either chemoheterotrophs (or chemoorganotrophs) which also require organic substances such as glucose for their primary metabolic energy requirements, or photoheterotrophs (or photoorganotrophs) which derive their primary energy requirements from light. Depending on environmental conditions some organisms can switch between different nutritional modes (AUTOTROPHY; heterotrophy; chemotrophy; or PHOTOTROPHY) to utilize different sources to meet their nutrients and energy requirements.
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D052836
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.375 G03.393
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| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Heterotrophic Processes" by people in Profiles.
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Darcy JL, King AJ, Gendron EMS, Schmidt SK. Spatial autocorrelation of microbial communities atop a debris-covered glacier is evidence of a supraglacial chronosequence. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2017 08 01; 93(8).
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Brewer TE, Handley KM, Carini P, Gilbert JA, Fierer N. Genome reduction in an abundant and ubiquitous soil bacterium 'Candidatus Udaeobacter copiosus'. Nat Microbiol. 2016 Oct 31; 2:16198.
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Justice NB, Li Z, Wang Y, Spaudling SE, Mosier AC, Hettich RL, Pan C, Banfield JF. (15)N- and (2)H proteomic stable isotope probing links nitrogen flow to archaeal heterotrophic activity. Environ Microbiol. 2014 Oct; 16(10):3224-37.
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Justice NB, Pan C, Mueller R, Spaulding SE, Shah V, Sun CL, Yelton AP, Miller CS, Thomas BC, Shah M, VerBerkmoes N, Hettich R, Banfield JF. Heterotrophic archaea contribute to carbon cycling in low-pH, suboxic biofilm communities. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Dec; 78(23):8321-30.
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