Heterotrophic Protists as Useful Models for Studying Microbial Food Webs in a Model Soil Ecosystem and the Universality of Complex Unicellular Life

Heterotrophic protists, consisting largely of the Cercozoa, Amoebozoa, Ciliophora, Discoba and some Stramenopiles, are a poorly characterized component of life on Earth. They play an important ecological role in soil communities and provide key insights into the nature of one of life’s most enigmati...

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Main Author: Thompson, Andrew Robert
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8575
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9575&context=etd