Terminology: chylotrophic - (Apr/17/2020 )

Hello all,

is the term "chylotrophic" a commonly used one in English or not really?

It is a term to describe external digestion (as fungi for example do)

thanks in advance.

Not commonly used, I consider myself fairly literate and didn't know the term

bob1 on Sat Apr 18 01:21:50 2020 said:

Not commonly used, I consider myself fairly literate and didn't know the term

Yeah, I figured it is something hardly used.

Do you have an idea what they use? Or is there no term to describe "external digestion" in english?

I don't think there is any comparable word, though a description might be "external digestion". From the form of the word I would have guessed that it meant something like moving in the direction of (a la tropism) chyle, not the movement of chyle.

Suggest the term saprophytic betters described the fungal process.  Appears roots chylo (juice) and trophic (nutrition) drive in that direction.

How are you Pito?  Haven;t heard from you in a while.

Phil Geis on Mon Apr 20 23:10:26 2020 said:

Suggest the term saprophytic betters described the fungal process.  Appears roots chylo (juice) and trophic (nutrition) drive in that direction.

 

How are you Pito?  Haven;t heard from you in a while.

Yeah, I guess that is a good way to describe it.

I never heard of it before, but I found it by accident in a PhD thesis and could not really find a lot of info about it.

To my surprise I now found the paper that originally coined the term!

I think it never caught up with scientist.

If you are curious: 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4353622?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

and they describe it as:

1"Chylotrophic" is here introduced as a new word describing organisms which characteristically absorb organic food in solution instead of making or ingesting it. All saprobes and many parasites are chylotrophic.

Yeah, I have been busy (and changed jobs, I am in a completely different field now!) and the forum seems to have been pretty calm as well!

How are you?