Association·arcadia

Bigelowiella longifila extensions capture prey

Claim that B. longifila uses thin, filopodia-like extensions to sense, approach, and engulf bacterial prey via chemotaxis-driven elongation and fanning.

Confidence
90%
active

Evidence Quote

“B. longifila capturing prey with an extension. The cell appears to sense a bacterium, kink and turn its extension, and engulf the trapped bacterium.”

Relationship

Bigelowiella longifila enables chlorarachniophyte extensions

Arguments

Bigelowiella longifilasubject
Thin filopodia-like extensionsobject

Connections (2)

Reasoning on B. longifila predatory behaviors via extensionsInferenceChain
Microchamber components enable microscopyAssociation

Evidence

“Reference for taxonomic study and cell migration of Bigelowiella longifila.”

(2007). TAXONOMIC STUDY OF BIGELOWIELLA LONGIFILA SP. NOV. (CHLORARACHNIOPHYTA) AND A TIME‐LAPSE VIDEO OBSERVATION OF THE UNIQUE MIGRATION OF AMOEBOID CELLS doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2007.00316.x ↗