"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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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 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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Moore ER, Weaver AJ, Davis EW, Giovannoni SJ, Halsey KH. Metabolism of key atmospheric volatile organic compounds by the marine heterotrophic bacterium Pelagibacter HTCC1062 (SAR11). Environ Microbiol. 2022 01; 24(1):212-222.
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Long RA, Eveillard D, Franco SL, Reeves E, Pinckney JL. Antagonistic interactions between heterotrophic bacteria as a potential regulator of community structure of hypersaline microbial mats. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2013 Jan; 83(1):74-81.
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Chen P, Li J, Li QX, Wang Y, Li S, Ren T, Wang L. Simultaneous heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification by bacterium Rhodococcus sp. CPZ24. Bioresour Technol. 2012 Jul; 116:266-70.
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Hynson NA, Mambelli S, Amend AS, Dawson TE. Measuring carbon gains from fungal networks in understory plants from the tribe Pyroleae (Ericaceae): a field manipulation and stable isotope approach. Oecologia. 2012 Jun; 169(2):307-17.