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Closely related protist strains have different grazing impacts on natural bacterial communities.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2010
Glücksman Edvard, Bell Thomas, Griffiths Robert I, Bass David
Abstract excerpt
Heterotrophic protists are abundant in most environments and exert a strong top-down control on bacterial communities. However, little is known about how selective most protists are with respect to their bacterial prey. We conducted feeding trials using cercomonad and glissomonad Cercozoa by assaying them on a standardized, diverse bacterial community washed from beech leaf litter. For each of the nine protist...
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