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Symposium: Trophodynamics and life histories of larger marine protozoa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

O. Roger Anderson  and
Rudolf Röttger
O. Roger Anderson
Affiliation:
Biological Oceanography, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, U.S.A.
Rudolf Röttger
Affiliation:
Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Der Universität, Kiel, F.R.G.
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The unique habitats of marine environments including some organically rich, but physically variable, benthic environments, and the rather uniform, regionally stable, open ocean environments have both produced species of biomineralizing protozoa of remarkable size ranging from several hundreds of microns to several millimetres (for solitary forms of foraminifera and radiolaria for example). Some colonial radiolaria are several centimetres in diameter and may reach lengths of over a metre for filiform species. These larger, free-living protozoa aften harbour algal symbionts and exhibit unusual adaptations to enhance their survival in their unique habitat and to stabilize, if not enhance, their association with their algal symbionts through structural and physiological modifications to complement the unique requirements imposed by animal–algal associations.

Keywords

Trophodynamicslife historiesmarine protozoadiatom symbiontssize in foraminifera
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Research Article
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 7 , Special Issue 3: Progress in Entomology: Proceedings of the VII International Congress of Protozoology , June 1986 , pp. 417 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © ICIPE 1986

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