The biomass pattern of Stentor covaried weakly with the biomass of the heterotrophic picoplankton and APP, but not with that of its potential food organisms ...

Stentor is not autotrophic, meaning it cannot produce its food via photosynthesis, nor is it mixotrophic, which refers to organisms that can obtain nutrition ...

Stentor is polyphagous, i.e. it feeds on various heterotrophic (e.g. ciliates and flagellates) and autotrophic (e.g. diatoms) protists. Even small metazoans ...

7 авг. 2010 г. · Stentor are omnivorous heterotrophs. Typically, they feed on bacteria or other protozoans. Because of their large size, they are also capable ...

Heterotrophic ciliates are used for breeding of tropical aquarium fish and in aquaculture but there is little field evidence that fish larvae feed on naked ...