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Laboratory evidence for the selective grazing of aggregated bacteria by a Bodo sp. 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.
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Sibbald et al. (1988) studied this question.
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