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Microbivory (adj. microbivorous, microbivoreEffects of microbivore species composition and basal resource enrichment on trophic-level biomasses in an experimental microbial-based soil food web. J Mikola, Oecologia, 1998) is a feeding behavior consisting of eating (especially ) practiced by animals of the , and .Rates of metazoan meiofaunal microbivory: a review. PA Montagna, Vie et Milieu, 1995Energetics of detritivory and microbivory in soil in theory and practice. DC Coleman, Food Webs, 1996Radioisotope technique to quantify in situ microbivory by meiofauna in sediments. PA Montagna, Handbook of methods in aquatic microbial ecology …, 1993

Microbivorous animals include some soil ,Life cycle of the microbivorous Antarctic Dry Valley nematode Scottnema lindsayae (Timm 1971). A Overhoff, DW Freckman, RA Virginia - Polar Biology, 1993Organic and inorganic nitrogenous losses by microbivorous nematodes in soil. RV Anderson, WD Gould, LE Woods, C Cambardella… - Oikos, 1983Uncoupling of carbon and nitrogen mineralization: role of microbivorous nematodes. MC Savin, JH Görres, DA Neher, JA Amador - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2001 or such as Drosophila sharpi. A well known example of microbivorous nematodes is the model roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans which is maintained in culture in labs on agar plates, fed with the 'OP50' strain of bacteria.

In food webs of , microbivores can be distinguished from , generally thought playing the roles of decomposers, as they don't consume decaying dead matter but only living microorganisms.


Use of term in robotics
There is also use of the term 'microbivore' to qualify the concept of autonomously finding their energy in the production of bacteria. has also proposed microbivore robots that would attack pathogens in the manner of white blood cells.Robert A. Freitas Jr., Microbivores: Artificial Mechanical Phagocytes using Digest and Discharge Protocol, self-published, 2001 [1]


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