SAPROSPIRA GRANDIS - A FLEXIBACTERIUM THAT CAN CATCH BACTERIAL PREY BY IXOTROPHY

Authors
LEWIN RA
Citation
Ra. Lewin, SAPROSPIRA GRANDIS - A FLEXIBACTERIUM THAT CAN CATCH BACTERIAL PREY BY IXOTROPHY, Microbial ecology, 34(3), 1997, pp. 232-236
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Ecology,Microbiology,"Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Microbial ecology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00953628
Volume
34
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
232 - 236
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-3628(1997)34:3<232:SG-AFT>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
A marine, multicellular, filamentous flexibacterium, Saprospira grandi s Gross, can not only live heterotrophically on dissolved organic subs trata, but can subsist on other microbes and can even catch motile bac teria by their flagella before killing and digesting them.