Fatty acids (FA) have been successfully used as trophic markers of bivalves to identify food sources, habitat preferences, feeding strategies and trophic links (Kharlamenko et al. 1995, 2001; Prato et al. 2010).
Individual selective preferences, feeding intake patterns, rumination time, and drinking behavior are likely to be critical in the regulation of the microbial community composition.
As acknowledged by the authors, vector behaviour (feeding preferences, feeding time, endo-exophagy, endo-exophily) also needs to be investigated before any conclusion can be put forward to explain the differences observed.
The sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus, however, showed no preference, feeding indiscriminately on different seaweeds.
Predator characteristics, e.g. prey-preference, feeding mechanism, predation strategy and habitat use, play an important role in shaping these plastic defences [ 42].
Differences in this modality can result from a variety of entangled ecological factors, such as prey-preference, feeding mechanism, predation strategy, habitat use, dangerousness and the mode of perception of the predator [ 14].
A sibling species, An. quadriannulatus, has a quite different host preference and feeds mostly on bovids.
Online stores personalize our preferences, thus feeding back to us our own taste.
They will mark their preferences and feed the ballots into the P.C.O.S. machines.
Feeding behavior was monitored in a growing finishing facility (n=1162) including preferences for feeding positions.
