mBio (Apr 2021)

The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators

  • Bruce A. Hungate,
  • Jane C. Marks,
  • Mary E. Power,
  • Egbert Schwartz,
  • Kees Jan van Groenigen,
  • Steven J. Blazewicz,
  • Peter Chuckran,
  • Paul Dijkstra,
  • Brianna K. Finley,
  • Mary K. Firestone,
  • Megan Foley,
  • Alex Greenlon,
  • Michaela Hayer,
  • Kirsten S. Hofmockel,
  • Benjamin J. Koch,
  • Michelle C. Mack,
  • Rebecca L. Mau,
  • Samantha N. Miller,
  • Ember M. Morrissey,
  • Jeffrey R. Propster,
  • Alicia M. Purcell,
  • Ella Sieradzki,
  • Evan P. Starr,
  • Bram W. G. Stone,
  • César Terrer,
  • Jennifer Pett-Ridge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00466-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2

Abstract

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The word “predator” may conjure images of leopards killing and eating impala on the African savannah or of great white sharks attacking elephant seals off the coast of California. But microorganisms are also predators, including bacteria that kill and eat other bacteria.