Zusammenfassung der Ressource
microbes
- Predation among Microbes
- -many microbes feed on each other
- protozoa often
eat bacteria
amoebas eat other
microbes
- bacteria feeding on other bacteria
- vampirovibro
attacks & kills some
species of algae
- Myxcoccus- attacks & kills
some bacteria
- bdellovibrio enters
bacteria and digests
from within
- Parasites of other microbes
- bacteriophages- parasites of bacteria
- some bacteria are parasites for protozoa
- ex. Legionella is a parasite of amoebas
- Virophage are viruses that
parasitize other viruses
- Competition
- many organisms compete directly with each other
- if found in the body (normal microbiota)
compete with potential invaders & prevent
foregien microbes from infecting the body
- Lactobacillus acidophilus
in the vagina prevent
growth of other
pathogens
- Cooperation (mutualism)
- some microbes help each other
- the waste product
of some microbes
are used a food for
another
- Nitrosomonas excretes the toxic waste product NO2(nitrite)
Nitrobacteria uses NO2 as an energy source and thus
eliminates it