Amoebidae

What Eats An Amoeba?

Amoebas are unicellular protists that morph into a variety of shapes by extending and retracting pseudopod limbs from their plasma membranes. Ranging in length from 0.1mm to 0.5mm, these master adaptors inhabit aqueous environments and moist soils across the planet. As omnipresent microbes, amoebas play a fundamental role in ecological food chains. They graze primarily on bacteria, algae, plant cells,…

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