Effect of Biofilm on Protozoans

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DonSchaeffer
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Effect of Biofilm on Protozoans

#1 Post by DonSchaeffer » Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:11 am

All my observations show that protozoans tend to get trapped and immobilized by bacterial biofilms. Research that I found shows that protozoan predation reduces biofilm production. It's the protozoans who are dominant. Why am I getting the wrong impression?
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Re: Effect of Biofilm on Protozoans

#2 Post by ScienceMatters » Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:59 pm

The effects of the cover slip? Getting trapped in that narrow space between slide and cover slip when otherwise, out in open water, they would be free to travel about and nibble at the edges of the biofilm?
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Re: Effect of Biofilm on Protozoans

#3 Post by DonSchaeffer » Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:41 pm

you think it's simple as that?
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