Abstract
• Predatory bacteria are common and very diverse. • Obligate and facultative predators "hunt" by different strategies. • In obligate predators, cell size is reduced, coupling multiplication with predation. • Predation between bacteria may have evolutionary consequences on both prey and predator; it also might explain how a protomichondrial symbiont first entered its prokaryotic host.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 67-73 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Microbe |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Feb 2007 |