Grazing of ciliated protozoa on free and particle-attached bacteria
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Protistan bacterivory, a microbial process involving ingestion and digestion, is ecologically important in the microbial loop in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. While bacterial resistance to protistan ingestion has been relatively well understood, little is known about protistan digestion in which some ingested bacteria could not be digested in cells of major protistan grazers in the natura...
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عنوان ژورنال: Marine Ecology Progress Series
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0171-8630,1616-1599
DOI: 10.3354/meps038125