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Ecology of Protozoa

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Phagocytosis—the uptake of particulate food particles—is an essential feature of protozoan feeding. Some protozoa obtain additional energy and materials for growth by other mechanisms, such as the uptake of dissolved materials, which will be discussed at the end of this chapter, while symbiotic relations with photosynthetic organisms is discussed in Chap. 8.

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  2. Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Esteban, G.F., Fenchel, T.M. (2020). Feeding. In: Ecology of Protozoa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59979-9_4

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