| Journal: | Revista brasileira de zoologia |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000281483 |
| ISSN: | 0101-8175 |
| Authors: | Dias, Roberto Júnio P1 D'Agosto, Marta |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Brasil |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Season: | Sep |
| Volumen: | 23 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 758-763 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | The objective of this study was to record and describe the morphological changes and the ingestion mechanisms of Frontonia leucas (Ehrenberg, 1833) according to the food type and to relate the food ingested with the different environmental conditions in a lotic system, namely São Pedro stream, located in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. We sampled three points on a monthly basis from August 2002 to June 2003, each of which receiving different levels of untreated sewage. We prepared culture media for the ciliate specimens containing filtered water from each point and the types of food observed inside F. leucas (cyanobacteria, diatoms, desmids and testate amoebas). We observed the ingestion mechanisms of F. leucas in vivo, under a phase contrast optical microscope, using instantaneous sampling and sequence sampling as behavior observation methods, noting the following parameters: dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, conductivity and water temperature. We noted the F. leucas ciliates ingesting diatoms and desmids at collection point 1 and filamentous cyanobacteria, testate amoebas (Arcella and Centropyxis) and rotifers at points 2 and 3. The present work records for the first time the ingestion of testate amoebas of the genus Centropyxis by F. leucas. We noted five ingestion mechanisms by F. leucas while feeding on cyanobacteria and testate amoebas of the genus Centropyxis, three of these related to the ciliary action and two involving physical changes in the cytoplasm. For ingestion of diatoms, desmid (Closteriu |
| Disciplines: | Biología |
| Keyword: | Ecología, Protozoarios, Depredación, Espectro trófico, Frontonia leucas, Ciliata |
| Keyword: | Biology, Ecology, Protozoa, Predation, Trophic spectrum, Frontonia leucas, Ciliata |
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