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Effects of the inability of suspension‐feeding protozoa to collect all cell sizes of a bacterial population
Author(s) -
Pavlou Stavros,
Fredrickson A. G.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.260250706
Subject(s) - protozoa , suspension (topology) , biology , bacteria , suspension culture , population , biological system , range (aeronautics) , microbiology and biotechnology , materials science , mathematics , cell culture , genetics , demography , homotopy , sociology , pure mathematics , composite material
The effects of the inability of suspension‐feeding protozoa to collect bacteria over the whole range of sizes in the bacterial size distribution were examined by constructing mathematical models based on this assumption. Systems of suspension‐feeding protozoa grown on both growing and nongrowing bacteria were examined in both batch and continuous culture. The models were able to predict three experimental observations common in such systems. Some additional features of the systems which should be useful in interpreting results of experiments with suspension feeding protozoa and in designing new experiments were predicted, also.