PRESCOTT'S MICROBIOLOGY
PRESCOTT'S MICROBIOLOGY
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Author: WILLEY
Publisher: MCG
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It is well known that bacterivory (the consumption of bacteria) supports the growth of marine protists that lack plastids. However, measurements of bacterivory among plastid-containing planktonic algae are surprising in showing that small (<5 μm) algae carry out between about 40 to 95% of the bacterivory in the photic zone of the North Atlantic. Discuss how this level of mixotrophy impacts the concept of the microbial loop (figure 30.6).

Chapter 30, Problem 3AL, It is well known that bacterivory (the consumption of bacteria) supports the growth of marine

Figure 30.6 The Microbial Loop. (a) Microorganisms play vital roles in ecosystems as primary producers, decomposers, and primary consumers. All organisms contribute to a common pool of dissolved organic matter (DOM) that is consumed by microbes. Viruses contribute DOM by lysing their hosts, and bacterial and archaeal cells are consumed by protists, which also consume other protists. These microbes are then consumed by herbivores that often select food items by size, thereby ingesting both heterotrophic and autotrophic microbes. Thus nutrient cycling is a complex system driven in large part by microbes. (b) Protists consume bacteria; in this case, a naked amoeba is consuming the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. which fluoresces red. (c) Protists consume protists; here, the ciliate Didinium sp. (rounded organism with two rows of cilia) is preying upon another ciliate, Paramecium sp.

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