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In a 48-day chemostat experiment, we investigated  competitive interactions of different heterotrophic and mixotrophic  ciliates of the genera Euplotes and Coleps under different resource  regimes, providing prey either continuously or in pulses under constant or  fluctuating light, entailing periods of resource depletion in fluctuating  environments, but overall providing the same amount of prey and light.  Although ultimate competition results remained unaffected, population  dynamics of mixotrophic and heterotrophic ciliates were significantly  altered by resource supply mode. However, the effects differed among  species combinations and changed over time. Whether mixotrophs or  heterotrophs dominated in competition strongly depended on the genera of  the competing species and thus species-specific differences in the minimum  resource requirements that are associated with feeding on shared prey,  nutrient uptake, light harvesting and access to additional resources such  as bacteria. Potential differences in the curvature of the species\u2019  resource-dependent growth functions may have further mediated the  species-specific responses to the different resource supply modes.  Overall, our study demonstrates that genus- or species-specific traits  other than related to nutritional mode may override the relevance of  acquired phototrophy by heterotrophs in competitive interactions, and that  the potential advantage of photosynthetic carbon fixation of  symbiont-bearing mixotrophs in competition with pure heterotrophs may  differ greatly among different mixotrophs, playing out under different  environmental conditions and depending on the specific requirements of the  species. 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