In exchange, the protozoans help the termites derive nutrition from cellulose in the wood.
The rumen is a large bioreactor that enables dairy cattle to derive nutrition from otherwise indigestible plant polymers and compounds.
They are the only known species of frog where the tadpoles derive nutrition by feeding on the skin cells of their fathers.
We do not really need to distinguish between the means of support, be they artificially derived respiration (the ventilator), artificially derived immune resistance (antibiotics) or artificially derived nutrition (tube feedings).
The Nutrition Data System for Research software (NDSR), version 2005 (Nutrition Coordinating Center of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN) was used to derive nutritional information.
Cyathus striatus is a saprobic fungus, deriving its nutrition from decaying organic material, and is typically found growing in clusters on small twigs or other woody debris.
L. plumulosus are facultative feeders; they live in U-shaped burrows through which they filter water and ingest suspended particles and also roam the surface of the sediment and deposit feed, thus deriving their nutrition and exposure to contaminants from both the water column and sediments.
These species harbour the chemoautotrophic bacteria within their bodies and derive nutrition directly from them.
The important hallmarks of a successful adapted pathogen are its ability to establish feeding structures, derive nutrition from the host and finally to complete its lifecycle in the host plant [ 3].
This may be of notable consequence because menhaden filter enormous volumes of sediment and plankton to derive nutrition (7 ), and aquatic mycobacteria can have an affinity for growing on particles, biofilms and sediments, and to be incorporated into amoebae, algae, and other microorganisms (8, 9 ).
