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Table 2.

Growth rate (d⁻¹) of each protist fed various food bacteria and archaea.

Food	Cyclidium sp.	Paracercomonas sp.	Trichomitus sp.
Gram-negative bacteria
E.coli	0.33 ± 0.08^a	0.48 ± 0.07^a	0.59 ± 0.11^a
Bacteroides luti	0.17 ± 0.02^b	0.51 ± 0.09^a	0.42 ± 0.09^a
Bacteroides graminisolvens	0.33 ± 0.08^a	0.61 ± 0.21^a	0.50 ± 0.21^a
Gram-positive bacteria
Propionibacterium acnes	0.20 ± 0.07^b	-	-
Trichococcus flocculiformis	-	-	0.61 ± 0.17^a
Trichococcus flocculiformis -b	0.44 ± 0.05^a	-	0.55 ± 0.07^a
Moorella thermoacetica	0.31 ± 0.03^a	-	-
Clostridium acetobutylicum	0.34 ± 0.06^a	-	0.38 ± 0.10^a
Archaea
Methanobacterium beijingense	-	-	-
Methanospirillum hungatei	-	-	-

Different superscript letters indicate ANOVA grouping with Tukey’s test at 95% confidence.

- not growth.