Motile chemosensory behaviour of phagotrophic protists: Mechanisms for and efficiency in congregating at food patches

被引：117

作者：

Fenchel, T ^{[1
]}

Blackburn, N ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Copenhagen, Marine Biol Lab, DK-3000 Helsingor, Denmark

来源：

PROTIST | 1999年 / 150卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1016/S1434-4610(99)70033-7

中图分类号：

Q93 [微生物学];

学科分类号：

071005 ; 100705 ;

摘要：

Phagotrophic protists are capable of congregating at point sources of food within a few minutes, from distances of up to several cm in the case of ciliates, or several mm in the case of microflagellates. This is exemplified by four ciliate species and a heterotrophic flagellate. Congregation is accomplished by the combined effect of more than one type of chemosensory motile behaviour including "kinetic responses", "temporal-gradient sensing", and "helical klinotaxis". The results are discussed in terms of microscale patchiness in nature.

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页码：325 / 336

页数：12

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