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Mary Jo Sibbald and Lawrence J. Albright; Aggregated and Free Bacteria as Food Sources for Heterotrophic Microflagellates. Appl.Environ.Microbiol. 54(2):613-616, 1988
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Laboratory evidence for the selective grazing of aggregated bacteria by a Bodo sp. and and free bacteria by a Paraphysomonas sp. is presented. The relevance of different microflagellate feeding mechanisms with respect to prey distribution in the natural environment is discussed.