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Ingestion and inactivation of bacteriophages by Tetrahymena.
The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Hennemuth Wendy, Rhoads Laura S, Eichelberger Henry, Watanabe Miki, Van Bell Kevin M, Ke Lei, Kim Hyesuk, Nguyen Giang, Jonas Jeremy D, Veith Derek, Van Bell Craig T
Abstract excerpt
Abiotic factors are thought to be primarily responsible for the loss of bacteriophages from the environment, but ingestion of phages by heterotrophs may also play a role in their elimination. Tetrahymena thermophila has been shown to ingest and inactivate bacteriophage T4 in co-incubation experiments. In this study, other Tetrahymena species were co-incubated with T4 with similar results. In addition, T....
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