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- adjective microbiology Feeding by engulfing a food cell or particle and ingesting it in a
phagocytic vacuole, in the manner of someflagellates .
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Work in this area has shown that the microbial food web can comprise a significant fraction of the total community biomass in arctic rivers and lakes, and that energy flow is routed through a diverse trophic network of microbial species displaying a wide array of nutritional modes (heterotrophic bacteria, phototrophic bacteria, phagotrophic protozoa, and mixotrophic flagellates [28]).
Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic 2009
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For the experiments reported here, steady-state unicellular C. vulgaris continuous cultures were inoculated with the predator Ochromonas vallescia, a phagotrophic flagellated protist ‘flagellate’.
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The article showed how when a common uni-celllular alga “Chlorella vulgaris” was exposed to a predator “Ochromonas vellesiaca”, a phagotrophic flagellate, within 100 generations or so, a multicellular colonial specie arose .
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