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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Protist. 2017 Apr 12;168(3):311–325. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2017.04.001

Table 2.

Time lapse microscopy at 320 × magnification

Isolate Movement on/in biofilm Apparent biofilm consumption strategy
Pp -ES Possible 3 dimensional movement. Cooperative - Myxamoebae jointly attack large chunks of biofilm-emeshed bacterial cells.
Dg-WS-142 3 dimensional movement throughout the biofilm Cooperative - Similar to Pp-ES but higher efficiency. Myxamoebae collectively attack large clusters of attached biofilm sloughing it to smaller edible cell clusters.